Koala

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Shortcode: :koala:
Unicode: U+1F428
HTML: 🐨
CSS: \1F428
JavaScript: "\u{1F428}"
URL: %F0%9F%90%A8

animal australia bear down face marsupial under

What 🐨 means

A koala face, sleepy and soft. It means Australia, cuddles, and clinging to someone you love.

People send it to say they want to hug someone and not let go, or that they are sleeping all day like a koala. Australians and visitors use it in travel posts with 🦘.

Koalas are marsupials, not bears, even though many people call them koala bears.

Facts

Koala 🐨 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :koala:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “australia”, “bear”, or “down”.