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🦧

orangutan

Orangutan

🦧 is the orangutan emoji: the shaggy orange great ape of Borneo and Sumatra, used for zoo trips, wildlife and conservation posts, and goofy ape jokes. It reads gentler than the gorilla 🦍. Aimed at a person's looks, though, it can land as a racist jab.

EmojiSince 2019

Search it as: ape · great ape · orange ape · red ape · orangutan arms · borneo
Type it as: :orangutan:
Around since: 2019 · Emoji 12.0
Shows up on: Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

What 🦧 means

🦧 is the orangutan emoji, filed under Animals & Nature in the animal-mammal subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.

It was added in Emoji 12.0 (2019) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 12.0 (2019).

How it is encoded

🦧 is a single code point, U+1F9A7.

It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.

Gentle and goofy about the animal; hostile when pointed at a person.

Never aim it at someone's appearance: ape emoji have a history as racist insults, especially toward Black people.

Don't confuse it with

🦍

Gorilla

Gorilla is the pick for strength, power and flexing; orangutan suits softer, sillier or conservation-minded messages.

Combination ideas

A zoo used this trio in a 2021 World Wildlife Day conservation post.

A suggested pairing for joking about long-armed pulling strength.

Worth knowing

The 2018 Unicode proposal argued monkey or gorilla emoji were inaccurate stand-ins, since orangutans are a distinct animal, and pointed to conservation awareness.

Questions people ask

What does "orangutan arms" mean?

Long arms for your height. It's gym slang for a wingspan that helps in pull-ups and boxing; fitness accounts were using it in 2025.

How to type 🦧

Windows

Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “orangutan”.

macOS

Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.

iOS / Android

Emoji keyboard → search “orangutan”.

Chat apps

:orangutan:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.

HTML

🦧

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🦧

HTML hex

🦧

CSS content

content: "\1F9A7";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%A6%A7

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Animals & nature145 symbols

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