• has a single hump
The camel emoji is the internet’s sunhat: shorthand for desert vibes, long treks, and “hump day” energy. It’s the dromedary (one hump), so people drop it on Wednesdays, in dry-humor replies, or when their group chat feels parched. Expect it in travel posts about Sahara caravans, Dubai adventures, or that sunrise camel ride your friend won’t stop humblebragging about. It’s also a mood for endurance—aka “I carried this whole project on my back,” with a side of sandstorm-level sarcasm.
On Apple/iOS, the camel is a tan, left-facing full-body profile with one distinct hump, long skinny legs, a small tufted tail, and a calm, neutral face—no saddle, no drama, just tasteful shading along the belly and hump. You’ll see it paired with the cactus, sun, and sand-dune aesthetics, or tossed in ironically when someone’s jokes are dry AF. Meme-wise, it nods to the camel’s legendary stamina (and the “spitting camel” lore) while winking at the “ship of the desert” history across trade routes. Use it to say: I’m dehydrated, I’m patient, I’m doing all the heavy lifting, or simply, happy Hump Day—now bring water.
A camel with a single hump from the Middle East. Bactrian camels have one hump and dromedary camels have one hump. Camels are mammals that are native to warm climates. The fatty hump of a camel helps it store and regulate its water needs, which allows it survive in the heat with long distances between watering holes.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 455 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :dromedary_camel: |
| Keywords | Dromedary, Camel, Hump, Desert, Middle East, Heat, Hot, Water, Hump day, Wednesday, Sex |
| Previous Names: | Dromedary Camel |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
This emoji is sometimes used to communicate smoking cigarette, after Joe Camel and the Camel brand cigarette. Can also be used on Wednesday as "hump day", the day in the middle of the work week, or as a synonym for sex or "hump."
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🐪 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🐪 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🐪 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🐪 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f42a |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F42A |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128042 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xAA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 AA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 252 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC2A |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc2a |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56362 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F42A |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F42A |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128042 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F42A" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\xaa" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC2A" |
