Try Kangaroo emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Kangaroo emoji mean?
A kangaroo mid-hop, for Australia and bouncing forward.
Energetic and place-specific. Australian accounts use it almost as a flag.
How to use 🦘 naturally
Travel posts, Australian pride and jokes about restless energy.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of 🦘
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Kangaroo was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2018, drawn mid-hop with the tail out for balance. The pose is the identification: a standing kangaroo at this size looks like a large rodent.
- Today
How its use evolved
Travel posts, Australian pride and jokes about restless energy.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🦘 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Three of them on the golf course 🦘
Flight lands in Sydney tomorrow 🦘
Cannot sit still today 🦘
When to use it
Using 🦘 clearly
Travel posts, Australian pride and jokes about restless energy. It lands as kangaroo emoji or australia emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the kangaroo emoji
What does 🦘 mean in a text message?
A kangaroo mid-hop, for Australia and bouncing forward. Energetic and place-specific. Australian accounts use it almost as a flag.
Is 🦘 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are kangaroo emoji, australia emoji, 🦘 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🦘 look different on another device?
U+1F998 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the kangaroo emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🦘 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the kangaroo emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🦘 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🦘 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F998 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🦘 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦘 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F998 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F998} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%98 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F998
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- kangaroo emojiaustralia emoji🦘 meaning
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