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Orangutan Emoji ๐Ÿฆง

Reddish-orange and shaggy-coated, the orangutan emoji depicts one of humanity's closest great-ape relatives. It's used mostly at face value โ€” for the animal itself and for conservation talk around its shrinking rainforest habitat in Borneo and Sumatra โ€” without much slang riding along.

What ๐Ÿฆง means

: An orangutan, the smart great ape with orange or brown fur, sitting comfortably with its long arms by its sides and a big belly sticking out.

The ๐Ÿฆง Orangutan emoji signifies fuzzy warmth, free spirit, and intelligence, like the creature's clever ability to learn sign language real quick. Apart from that, it also suggests affection, love, laziness, or boredom. Some platforms show this furry creature with one hand raised high, scratching its head in curiosity, while a few others show only its face.

How and when to use it

  • You can use ๐Ÿฆง when you want to talk about the ease of a situation or a relaxed life.
  • ๐Ÿฆง can be used to portray a person in the basic stages of learning something new.
  • Orangutans are known for their big bellies. You can use ๐Ÿฆง to depict laziness or obesity.
  • There is a sense of freedom about the image of an orangutan. Freedom from the tensions of society. ๐Ÿฆง can be used to portray that sense of freedom.

Other Names

  • ๐Ÿฆง Smart Ape
  • ๐Ÿฆง Orange Ape
  • ๐Ÿฆง Lazy Monkey
  • ๐Ÿฆง Fat Monkey
  • ๐Ÿฆง Orange Monkey
  • ๐Ÿฆง Confused Monkey
  • ๐Ÿฆง Thinking Monkey
  • ๐Ÿฆง Scratching Monkey

The lowdown

Category
Animals & Nature โ€บ animal-mammal
Codepoints
U+1F9A7
Emoji version
Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes
:orangutan:
Keywords
animal, ape, monkey, orangutan

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.

orangutan on Apple
Apple
orangutan on Google
Google
orangutan on Twitter/X
Twitter/X
orangutan on Facebook
Facebook
orangutan on Microsoft
Microsoft

โšก Quick round

Which joined the keyboard first โ€” ๐Ÿฆง Orangutan or ๐ŸŒต Cactus?

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