Extinct for thousands of years but one of the newest emoji on the keyboard, the mammoth pictures a shaggy, curved-tusked woolly beast. It covers the literal prehistoric animal, works as an adjective for anything genuinely huge — a 'mammoth' task, a 'mammoth' meal — and gets a nod whenever de-extinction research makes headlines.
What 🦣 means
The entire, massive, brown body of the extinct animal, the mammoth, standing on all fours, displaying its large stature, with its signature long tusks shooting out the sides of its mouth, a long trunk, and a long tail at the other end. The mammoth seen here is facing left.
The 🦣 Mammoth emoji signifies the massiveness of the animal it represents, its danger, and also its characteristic of being extinct. The different platforms vary in their designs of this emoji, some even showing the mammoth in a greyish shade.
How and when to use it
- Unusually large objects can be represented through the 🦣 emoji.
- Intangible things of massive proportions can be represented through 🦣. (For example, A mammoth of a task).
- Something old and irrelevant can be compared to the extinction of the mammoth using 🦣.
- Extreme obesity can also be represented through the 🦣 emoji.
- If the conversation literally involves a mammoth, there's no better emoji than 🦣.
Other Names
- 🦣 Manny
- 🦣 Massive
- 🦣 Gigantic
- 🦣 Tusker
- 🦣 Colossal
- 🦣 Wooly Mammoth
- 🦣 Extinct
- 🦣 Enormous
- 🦣 Giant
- 🦣 Huge
- 🦣 Giant Elephants
- 🦣 Ancient Elephants
- 🦣 Wildlife
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F9A3- Emoji version
- Emoji 13.0
- Shortcodes
:mammoth:- Keywords
- animal, extinction, large, mammoth, tusk, wooly
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🦣 Mammoth or 🕢 Seven-thirty?