🐘 Elephant

🐘 Elephant is one of the mammals in Unicode's Animals & Nature group. It usually appears in messages about animal.

You can drop 🐘 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. The character has been part of the standard since 2010 (Emoji 0.6). Its code point is U+1F418.

• A single 🐘 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about animal.
• Often seen near 🦣 Mammoth, 🦒 Giraffe and 🦙 Llama.

In India and Thailand the elephant is sacred: Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, removes obstacles and is invoked before any new undertaking. White elephants were a royal prerogative in Siam.

Hence the phrase white elephant for a gift that costs more than it is worth: the king is said to have presented unwelcome courtiers with a white elephant they could neither work nor dispose of. In the West the elephant also stands for a good memory – and, via the elephant in the room, for the obvious thing nobody mentions.

• 🐘🦣 – Elephant and Mammoth
• 🐘🦏 – Elephant with Rhinoceros
• 🐘🐑 – Elephant plus Ewe
• 🐘🐭 – Elephant and Mouse Face
• 🐘🐐 – Elephant with Goat
• 🐘🐪 – Elephant plus Camel
• 🐘🦒 – Elephant and Giraffe
• 🐘🐫 – Elephant with Two-Hump Camel

Easy to mix up with 🦣 Mammoth, 🦒 Giraffe or 🦙 Llama. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.