Central Asia's colder deserts are native territory for the Bactrian camel, pictured here with its signature two humps. It shares the desert-travel and endurance ground of its one-humped cousin, just chosen when the extra hump actually matters to the story.
What 🐫 means
The full, brown body of a Bactrian camel (the kind that has two humps on its back instead of one). The camel is seen in its side-view, facing left, and visible is its long neck, relatively small head, all four long legs, and its long tail.
This emoji can be used interchangeably with the 🐪 Camel emoji in most places, however, the dual humps can represent doubleness. The different platforms vary in their depictions of this emoji and some even show the Bactrian camel facing straight ahead.
How and when to use it
- Doubleness can be represented through 🐫 because of the presence of dual humps.
- Extreme hot weather can be mentioned, even if exaggerated, through 🐫.
- Endurance through hardship can also be represented through the 🐫 emoji.
- You can also use 🐫 to depict a sense of hoarding. (Two full humps of water on him!"
- The lankiness of a person can be pointed out using 🐫.
- Conversations literally involving camels can have the 🐫 emoji in them, and if the conversation actually involves a Bactrian camel, you hit the jackpot! An emoji cannot get any more accurate than that.
Other Names
- 🐫 Bactrian Camel
- 🐫 Bactrian
- 🐫 Double Hump Camel
- 🐫 Asian Camel
- 🐫 Two-Bump Camel
- 🐫 Ship Of The Desert
- 🐫 Camel
- 🐫 Hoof
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F42B- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:camel:- Keywords
- animal, bactrian, camel, desert, hump, two, two-hump
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 — 🐫 Two-hump Camel or 🦘 Kangaroo?