What 🫏 means
The animal, or calling someone stubborn like a jackass.
Send it straight for donkeys, mules, burros, farm life, or hauling a heavy load. Turn it on a person and it teases them for being stubborn, foolish, or an ass — sillier than swearing, still pointed.
Sweet for animals and farm talk; sassy when pointed at a person.
Never aim it upward at work: it lands as jackass.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsFarm, travel, or work chat
Literal donkey, mule, or beast of burden.
US election or party chat
Democrats, especially next to blue hearts or an elephant.
Don't confuse it with
1Worth knowing
- 🫏 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1is the donkey emoji rude?
It can be. For the animal it is friendly; aimed at someone's choice it teases them as stubborn or a jackass. Keep it literal around bosses and strangers.
How to type 🫏
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “donkey”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “donkey”.
Chat apps
:donkey:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🫏Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🫏
HTML hex
🫏
CSS content
content: "\1FACF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AB%8F
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.