Moose Emoji
A moose with broad antlers, for northern forests and large presence.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Moose emoji mean?
A moose with broad antlers, for northern forests and large presence.
Big and calm. Northern accounts use it as shorthand for where they live.
How to use 🫎 naturally
Canadian and Nordic posts, wildlife sightings and jokes about being enormous.
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 🫎
- 2022
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Moose was first defined as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. A modest release continuing the annual cadence.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2023 alongside the goose and the donkey, drawn in profile with palmate antlers and a heavy muzzle. The flat antlers are the only thing keeping it clear of the deer.
- Today
How its use evolved
Canadian and Nordic posts, wildlife sightings and jokes about being enormous.
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.
One walked straight through the campsite 🫎
Norway trip, week two 🫎
He fills any doorway he stands in 🫎
When to use it
Using 🫎 clearly
Canadian and Nordic posts, wildlife sightings and jokes about being enormous. It lands as moose emoji or elk 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 moose emoji
What does 🫎 mean in a text message?
A moose with broad antlers, for northern forests and large presence. Big and calm. Northern accounts use it as shorthand for where they live.
Is 🫎 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are moose emoji, elk emoji, 🫎 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🫎 look different on another device?
U+1FACE 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 moose 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 moose emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🫎 as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. 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+1FACE | 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 | \1FACE | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FACE} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AB%8E | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FACE
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- moose emojielk emoji🫎 meaning
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