koala

koala meaning

A koala's face, grey with fluffy ears. It represents Australia and Australian wildlife, and it is used as a national shorthand alongside the kangaroo. Koalas sleep up to twenty hours a day, a fact that makes the emoji useful for expressing extreme sleepiness.

Meaning

A koala's face, grey with fluffy ears. It represents Australia and Australian wildlife, and it is used as a national shorthand alongside the kangaroo. Koalas sleep up to twenty hours a day, a fact that makes the emoji useful for expressing extreme sleepiness. They were badly hit by the 2019–20 bushfires, and the emoji features heavily in conservation appeals.

How to use it

• Sleeping twenty hours a day, aspirational 🐨
• Australia, essentially 🐨
• Bushfires devastated their habitat 🐨

How it looks

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Google Noto Color Emoji — SIL OFL 1.1 (font) / Apache 2.0 (code).

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Twemoji by Twitter/X contributors — CC-BY-4.0 (jdecked/twemoji).

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OpenMoji by the HfG Karlsruhe — CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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Blobmoji — Apache-2.0 (derivative of Noto).

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This emoji in other languages

Available in 100 languages

Technical details

Codepoints

U+1F428

Emoji version

0.6

Shortcodes

:koala: :koala_face:

Category

Animals & Nature

FAQ

What does the koala emoji (🐨) mean?

A koala's face, grey with fluffy ears. It represents Australia and Australian wildlife, and it is used as a national shorthand alongside the kangaroo. Koalas sleep up to twenty hours a day, a fact that makes the emoji useful for expressing extreme sleepiness.

How do you type the koala emoji?

Copy the koala emoji 🐨 directly from this page and paste it anywhere — messages, social media, documents, or code. On mobile, long-press to copy.

What category is the koala emoji in?

The koala emoji belongs to the Animals & Nature category.