Llama

What 🦙 means

A llama, the woolly pack animal of the Andes. People also use it for the alpaca, its smaller cousin, and for goofy, fluffy charm.

Pun lovers send it with lines like "no prob-llama", and a "drama llama" is a person who stirs up conflict. It marks travel in Peru, Bolivia and the Andes, often with 🏔️. In tech chat, 🦙 often stands for the Llama AI language models and the tools built around them.

Llamas are larger, with long banana-shaped ears; alpacas are smaller and fluffier, and are raised mainly for their wool.

Facts

Llama 🦙 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :llama:. People also look for it with words like “alpaca”, “animal”, “guanaco”, or “vicuña”.

Timeline

1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)

Design history

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

animals & nature · Emoji 11.0