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Kangaroo emoji

Type :kangaroo: · Animals & nature

Unicode name Kangaroo · added in Emoji 11.0, 2018

What 🦘 means

A kangaroo. Australia, jumping, and the shorthand for the whole continent in a travel post.

How to type 🦘 without a picker

With Emoji Anywhere installed, type :kang in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 🦘 from the suggestion that appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.

Shortcodes

:kangaroo:

Search terms

Also found by searching animal, joey, jump, marsupial.

🦘 in HTML, CSS and code

Kangaroo is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.

Unicode
U+1F998
HTML
🦘
JavaScript
'\u{1F998}'
CSS content
"\1F998"
Python
'\U0001F998'
URL-encoded
%F0%9F%A6%98

Related emojis

All animals & nature shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .

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