Deer

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Shortcode
:deer:
Unicode
U+1F98C
HTML
🦌
CSS
\1F98C
JavaScript
"\u{1F98C}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%8C

animal

What ๐ŸฆŒ means

A deer with antlers. It stands for deer, the woods, and gentle wildlife, and it often stands in for a reindeer.

Around Christmas it plays Santa's reindeer next to ๐ŸŽ…, and in autumn it marks hunting season and backyard sightings. It also pictures being startled, frozen like a deer in the headlights, and it powers the โ€œoh deerโ€ pun.

Facts

Deer ๐ŸฆŒ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :deer:. People also look for it with words like โ€œanimalโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. deer, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. deer, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. deer, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

animals & nature ยท Emoji 3.0