Alt Code Shortcuts for Animals Emoji Symbols

Animal emoji symbols are very popular in WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger chat conversations. In addition, there are also places to use animal symbols like three no-evil monkeys. Fortunately, you can type almost all animals using keyboard shortcuts. Unicode system also contains animals and animal faces as part of the emoji symbols. Here we will explain how to insert animal emoji symbols on your documents.

Animal Emoji Categories

Unicode has more than 100 animal emoji symbols under “Animals & Nature” category. All animal emoji are classified into one of the following groups:

• Mammals like elephant and monkey
• Birds like eagle, chicken and turkey
• Amphibian like frog
• Reptiles like crocodile, turtle, T-Rex
• Marine animals like whale, dolphin and octopus
• Bugs like snail, butterfly and mosquito

Though you can use alt keys to type most of these animal symbols, few symbols contain combined codepoints (called surrogate pairs). For example, you can’t type service dog (U+1F415 U+200D U+1F9BA), black cat ( U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B) and polar bear (U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F) emoji. You can use copy paste emoji picker to copy and paste these emoji symbols. In addition, some applications and browsers may not support the newly released animal emoji symbols like bison and mammoth.

Alt Code Shortcut for Animal Emoji Symbols

Here is a complete list of alt code shortcuts to insert different animals on Windows based PC. The alt codes in the below table will work on all Microsoft Office documents like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. But you need to have a keyboard with a separate number pad.

The Alt + X codes can be only used on Word documents. Enter the hexadecimal code value and then press alt and x keys to convert it to an animal symbol.

Animal Emoji Symbols

You can also easily insert animal emoji symbols in Windows and Mac documents.

Animal Emojis on Windows

• On Windows, press “Win + ;” keys to open emoji keyboard.
• Search for the symbol by entering the keyword like “cat”.
• Click on the symbol to insert on your document.
• Alternatively, click the smiley icon and scroll down to find animal emoji symbols.

Animal Emoji Symbols in Mac

• On Mac, go to “Edit > Emoji & Symbols” menu to open Character Viewer app. This works on all Mac apps like Pages, Keynote and TextEdit.
• Navigate to “Emoji > Animal & Nature” section.
• Find the image and double click to insert.

Animal Emojis on iPhone and Android

Smartphones also have emoji keyboard to insert these emoji symbols. Apple iOS has a dedicated Animoji faces for creating custom animal faces. In addition, iOS default keyboard will show the emoji symbols when you type the relevant keyword. For example, you will see monkey symbols when you type “monkey” in Messages or other chatting apps in iPhone.

Similarly on Android smartphones, you can use Gboard Google keyboard to insert animal emoji symbols.

Symbol Variations

Emoji symbols are in solid format which you can’t customize. However, the symbols will look like a line diagram when you type in some Windows applications. In such case, you can easily change the color and customize the size. Below are some examples with larger size and different background colors.

Animals Emoji Shortcuts Image Reference

Below is the animal symbols chart in an image format. Just right click on the image and save to your computer for offline use.