Weโre visiting the great apes in Indonesia! The term orangutan comes from the Malay language and means man of the forest. The intelligent, peaceful apes do not like rain and live in trees.
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Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon
First included
The emoji โOrangutanโ was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0.