One of the newer additions to the animal lineup, the moose emoji shows the massive antlered deer species found across Canada, Scandinavia, and the northern U.S. It's used for wilderness and cold-weather content, and functions as a lighthearted national symbol for Canadians the way the maple leaf does.
What 🫎 means
A moose in full profile, antlers spread wide like open hands. The 🫎 Moose emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) brought the largest member of the deer family to the keyboard — to the delight of Canadians, Scandinavians, and anyone whose hiking stories needed it.
Beyond the literal animal, moose energy is a real thing: big, calm, unbothered, occasionally blocking your road.
How and when to use it
- Wildlife sightings and cabin-country posts: "A 🫎 just walked through the campsite like he pays rent."
- Shorthand for Canada and the north woods alongside 🍁: "Road trip to Algonquin 🫎🍁"
- For unbothered confidence: "Deadline chaos everywhere and he's just 🫎 about it."
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1FACE- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:moose:- Keywords
- alces, animal, antlers, elk, mammal, moose
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 — 🫎 Moose or 😆 Grinning Squinting Face?
Runs with a crowd
🫎 keeps company in brown emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.