T-Rex

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Shortcode
:t-rex:
Shortcode
:trex:
Unicode
U+1F996
HTML
🦖
CSS
\1F996
JavaScript
"\u{1F996}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%96

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What 🦖 means

Fierce, loud and stomping, with a roar to match. The Tyrannosaurus rex is the classic big bad of the dinosaur world.

People send it with "rawr" or when they feel fierce. Its tiny arms are a running joke, so 🦖 also shows up when someone cannot reach something or cannot give a hug.

Facts

T-Rex 🦖 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal reptile. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :t-rex: or :trex:. People also look for it with words like “Rex”, “T”, “Tyrannosaurus”, or “dinosaur”.

Timeline

  1. 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. T-Rex, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. T-Rex, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. T-Rex, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20172017
  2. T-Rex, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20212021

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

animals & nature · Emoji 5.0