Donkey joined the emoji list in Emoji 15.0, so an older device may show it as an empty box. This donkey emoticon page adds seven text donkeys that need no emoji, hee-haw in ten languages and eleven combos.
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Donkey emoticons that need no emoji
Ξ(β’_β’)Ξ is two capital lambdas for the long ears and a plain face between them. Ξ(-_-)Ξ has shut its eyes and is not moving. Ξ(β’_β’)Ξ hee-haw adds the bray. The lambda and the bullet have no key on a US keyboard, so copy the face here.
Donkey, mule and burro
Donkey is the only emoji CLDR files under mule or burro. By Wikipedia a mule has a donkey for a father and a horse for a mother, which is the combo Donkey plus horse. ι¨Ύ is the Han character Unihan defines as mule.
Stubborn is one of the donkey's own CLDR search words.
Moose is the donkey's neighbor in Unicode's list and came in the same version.
Questions and answers
Is there a donkey emoji?
Yes. Donkey is U+1FACF, from Emoji 15.0. CLDR's search words for it include burro, mule, hinny and stubborn. It is the first tile on this page.
Why does the donkey emoji show as a box?
Donkey is from Emoji 15.0. A device or app whose emoji font is older has no picture for it and may show an empty box. The text donkeys here are made of letters and signs, not emoji.
How do you type a donkey emoticon?
Copy Ξ(β’_β’)Ξ: a capital lambda on each side for the ears, parentheses, two bullets and an underscore. Seven versions are here, among them one braying and one with a carrot.
What sound does a donkey make in other languages?
By Wikipedia's list: hi han in French, i-ah in German, ih oh in Italian, i-ha in Romanian and ii-a in Russian, beside hee-haw in English. Ten brays are tiles here.
All 37 donkey items
The donkey and its stable 6
π₯CarrotU+1F955. Three search words: carrot, food and vegetable. Emoji 3.0.
π«DonkeyU+1FACF. One of the newer animals, so an older device may show an empty box. CLDR's words for it include burro, mule and stubborn. Emoji 15.0.
πHorseU+1F40E. The emoji after Donkey in Unicode's list. Emoji 0.6.
π΄Horse faceU+1F434. Filed under equine. Wikipedia calls the donkey a domesticated equine. Emoji 0.6.
π«MooseU+1FACE. The emoji before Donkey in Unicode's list, added in the same version. Emoji 15.0.
π¦ZebraU+1F993. Filed under stripe. Emoji 5.0.
Donkey emoticons, one line 7
Ξ(-_-)ΞEyes shut, not moving
Ξ(β’_β’)ΞA donkey: two tall ears and a plain face
ι¨ΎMule, the Han characterU+9A3E. Unihan defines it in one word: mule. By Wikipedia a mule has a donkey for a father and a horse for a mother.
Hee-haw, by language 10
ΠΈΠΈ-Π°Russian (ii-a)
aa-iiTurkish
hee-hawEnglish
hi hanFrench
hie hΓ΄Afrikaans
i-Γ‘Hungarian
i-ahGerman
i-haRomanian
ih ohItalian
ΓΓ-ÑÑCzech
Show all 37 donkey items (11 more)
Donkey combos 11
π«ποΈCanyon trailDonkey, then desert.
π« + πDonkey plus horseDonkey, a plus sign, horse: by Wikipedia, a mule's father and mother.
π π«πFarm morningSunrise, then donkey, then rooster.
π₯π£π«Follow the carrotCarrot, then fishing pole, then donkey.
π«π¬Hee-haw, in emojiDonkey, then speech balloon.
π«πLong earsDonkey, then ear.
π«β°οΈMountain pathDonkey, then mountain.
π«π’No hurryDonkey, then turtle.
π«πPack donkeyDonkey, then backpack. Wikipedia lists pack animal among the donkey's main uses.
π«π΄Stable matesDonkey, then horse face.
π«πStubbornDonkey, then stop sign. Stubborn is one of the donkey's CLDR search words.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-01 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Donkey is U+1FACF, Emoji 15.0, in the subgroup animal-mammal between Moose and Horse; CLDR files no other emoji under mule, burro or stubborn. One of CLDR's words for Donkey is left out of the tile's search words. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). Han definitions and readings are from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The brays are from Wikipedia, Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias, CC BY-SA 4.0), the column Donkey braying. From Wikipedia, Donkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated: a domesticated equine, used chiefly as a draft or pack animal, and the mule as the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. The seven text donkeys and the combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.