🦍 Gorilla
Description
A gorilla, the powerful, black-haired great ape. Variously depicted in full profile on all fours facing left or as a friendly, cartoon-styled gorilla face looking straight ahead. Most platforms' designs depict a full gorilla, as a silverback, with strong shoulders and reddish forehead. Twitter’s designs feature a black and gray gorilla face with a neutral expression and prominent forehead and jaw. Google, Samsung, and Facebook’s designs previously featured only a gorilla face. This emoji is considered racist in some contexts, particularly when used to disparage, insult, and abuse people with dark skin, especially Black people.
Image Variants
3D
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Flat
High Contrast
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| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :gorilla: | |
| GitHub | :gorilla: | |
| Slack | :gorilla: | |
| Discord | :gorilla: |
Additional Information
A gorilla, displayed either as the entire animal, or just the face. Gorilla was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3 http://emojipedia.org/gorilla/
- Gorillas constitute the eponymous genus Gorilla, the largest extant genus of primates by physical size.
- The largest of the great apes (Hominidae), native to the forests of central Africa.
- Largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa
- Largest extant genus of apes
- The largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for its trait of knuckle-walking