🦘

Kangaroo Emoji 🦘

What 🦘 means

A full profile of a kangaroo standing with its strong tail resting on the floor, the face looking forward with perked up ears and the forelimbs held close to the body.

The first thing the 🦘 Kangaroo emoji evokes is Australia. But apart from significance to its partial origin (the other half being South America), it can also suggest a firm sense of balance, boxing and punching ability, and a great jumping span.

How and when to use it

If you're a boxer who loves kangaroos, then you must use 🦘 in your social media profile name. Apart from this niche, people who love kangaroos or those who love to identify their Australian or South American ethnicity with the roos, or social media pages that has 'Kangaroo' in it can use 🦘 in their social media profile names.
If you're sharing informative content related to kangaroos, Australian/South American tourism and/or safari, and any such related themes, you can use 🦘 in the captions.
If you've nicknamed someone as 'Kangaroo' or 'Roo', then you can use 🦘 either while saving their contact on your phone or while addressing them, either in direct messages (DM) or while posting pictures/videos on social media with them.
If you're sharing a picture of you and your little one cuddled up (or that of a Kangaroo and its kid), 🦘 can be a cute fit into that caption (because Kangaroo mums are the best cuddlers to their Joeys).
Use 🦘 while sharing pictures or videos with kangaroos, or while reposting or retweeting an incredible post about them that you came across on social media.

Other Names

🦘 Marsupial
🦘 Roo
🦘 Joey
🦘 Buck, Boomer (haha), Jack, Old Man (Male Roos)
🦘 Doe, Flyer, Jill (Female Roos)
(the roos got a little jack and jill going on, aye)
🦘 Wallaby (a smaller roo)
🦘 Hippety Hopper
🦘 Wallaroo

🦘 in real conversations

What does 🦘 mean in texting?

Australia, mostly, along with jumping straight to something or bouncing back from a setback. It gets sent for actual travel plans, a big leap of faith, or just general Australian pride, since the kangaroo is about as tied to the country as any animal gets.

Do kangaroos actually box?

Sort of. Male kangaroos grip each other with their front paws, lean back on their tails for balance, and kick hard with their powerful hind legs, mostly to compete for mates or fend off a threat. It looks close enough to real boxing that the image of a boxing kangaroo became its own cultural icon. 🦘 nods at that scrappy reputation.

What's a 'kangaroo court'?

A sham trial that only pretends to be fair, with the verdict basically decided before it starts. Despite the name, the phrase actually started in 1800s America, likely tied to Gold Rush-era mining disputes, not Australia at all. 🦘 gets dropped whenever a decision, official or not, feels rigged from the beginning.

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
Codepoints: U+1F998
Emoji version: Emoji 11.0
Shortcodes: :kangaroo:
Keywords: animal, joey, jump, kangaroo, marsupial

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.