Zebra

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Shortcode: :zebra:
Unicode: U+1F993
HTML: 🦓
CSS: \1F993
JavaScript: "\u{1F993}"
URL: %F0%9F%A6%93

What 🦓 means

A zebra's head with black and white stripes. It means zebras, safaris, and stripes.

Wildlife trips and zebra-print fashion use it. Sports fans call referees “zebras” because of their striped shirts. In medicine, the saying “think horses, not zebras” makes it a symbol of rare diseases.

The Ehlers-Danlos and wider rare disease communities use 🦓 as their mascot.

Facts

Zebra 🦓 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. 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 :zebra:. People also look for it with words like “animal” or “stripe”.