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🦌 Deer

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🦌 Emoji meaning

Off to the woods! Shyness, fertility, Bambi, and reindeer.

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🦌 Meaning

The deer is an antlered mammal and king of the forest. The doe belongs to the family of deer. Christmas symbol (Rudolph Reindeer) or famous character of the Disney movie Bambi. In mythology, both the deer and the unicorn are representations of soul and mind. In popular belief, the deer has also an erotic meaning.

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Deer

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Moose vs deer; many users still default to the deer emoji for any large antlered animal.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Deer” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 .

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ deer

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