๐Ÿช

๐Ÿช Emoji meaning

Desert, pack animals, scarce water, hard work, swaying gait.

๐Ÿช Meaning

A difficult journey is approaching! The single-humped camel lives in Africa and Arabia. As a pack animal and mount, it can live in the desert and do without water for weeks. Characteristic features are the long neck, the long eyelashes and the swinging gait. A dromedary symbolizes luck but also worries and hard work.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Camel
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Camel vs two-hump camel; users may not notice the extra hump and just see a camel silhouette.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji โ€œCamelโ€ was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal + desert + one

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ camel

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ dromedary + hump

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- dromedary

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