Jungle came into English in the 18th century from the Hindustani word for forest, and the Sanskrit behind it meant rough and arid, by Wikipedia. This jungle emoji page opens on tropical, then forest: Palm tree and Deciduous tree.
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Tropical, forest and ape, by the search words
CLDR is the word list behind emoji search. It files tropical under seven emoji, and Palm tree is the only tree among them. Forest leads to Deciduous tree and two more, ape to Orangutan alone. Jungle, rainforest and vine lead nowhere, safari to Lion alone and wild to Broccoli.
Jungle or rainforest
Wikipedia separates the two. A jungle is tangled at ground level, dense enough that travelers cut their way through. The floor of a rainforest is fairly open, because little sunlight reaches it. A closed canopy and lianas are among the marks of a rainforest.
Jungles occur on every inhabited landmass, so Wikipedia says their wildlife has no simple definition. These animals are this page's picks.
Questions and answers
Is there a jungle emoji?
Not by that name. Unicodeโs emoji list, version 18.0, has no emoji named jungle or rainforest, and CLDR files nothing under either word. ๐ด๐ณ, Palm tree then Deciduous tree, is this pageโs stand-in: tropical, then forest.
Is there a rainforest emoji?
No. The combo Rainforest puts ๐ง๏ธ Cloud with rain before ๐ณ Deciduous tree: rain, then forest, by CLDRโs own words. Wikipedia notes that jungle is still in common use for a tropical rainforest.
Is there a jungle symbol in plain text?
No character is named jungle. ๆฃฎ is forest, or luxuriant vegetation, in the Unihan database, and ๅฏๆ, dense then forest, is a word for jungle in Mandarin and Japanese. Both paste as ordinary text.
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Closest emoji 11
๐BananaU+1F34C. Filed under fruit. Emoji 0.6.
๐ง๏ธCloud with rainU+1F327 U+FE0F. Filed under rain. Emoji 0.7.
๐ฅฅCoconutU+1F965. Filed under palm. Emoji 5.0.
๐ณDeciduous treeU+1F333. Filed under forest and habitat. Emoji 1.0.
๐ฟHerbU+1F33F. Filed under leaf and plant. For the undergrowth: a jungle is tangled at ground level, by Wikipedia. Emoji 0.6.
๐บHibiscusU+1F33A. Filed under flower and plant. Emoji 0.6.
๐ด๐ณJunglePalm tree, then deciduous tree.
๐Leaf fluttering in windU+1F343. Filed under leaf. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฅญMangoU+1F96D. Filed under tropical. Emoji 11.0.
๐ดPalm treeU+1F334. The only tree among the seven emoji filed under tropical. Emoji 0.6.
๐PineappleU+1F34D. Filed under tropical. Emoji 0.6.
Animals for the scene 13
๐ฆButterflyU+1F98B. Filed under insect and pretty. Emoji 3.0.
๐CrocodileU+1F40A. Emoji 1.0.
๐ElephantU+1F418. Two search words: animal and elephant. Emoji 0.6.
๐ธFrogU+1F438. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฆGorillaU+1F98D. Two search words: animal and gorilla. Emoji 3.0.
๐LeopardU+1F406. Filed under big, cat and predator. Emoji 1.0.
๐ฆLizardU+1F98E. Filed under reptile. Emoji 3.0.
๐MonkeyU+1F412. Filed under banana. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฆงOrangutanU+1F9A7. The only emoji filed under ape. Emoji 12.0.
๐ฆParrotU+1F99C. Filed under bird and talk. Emoji 11.0.
๐ฆฅSlothU+1F9A5. Filed under lazy and slow. Emoji 12.0.
๐SnakeU+1F40D. Filed under serpent. Emoji 0.6.
๐ TigerU+1F405. Filed under big, cat and predator. Emoji 1.0.
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Jungle scenes 12
๐ณ๐๐ณElephant pathDeciduous tree, then elephant, then deciduous tree.
๐งญ๐ฅพ๐ดExpeditionCompass, then hiking boot, then palm tree.
๐๐ด๐ฆJungle at nightCrescent moon, then palm tree, then bat.
๐ด๐๐ฟ๐๐ดMonkeys in the canopyPalm tree, then monkey, then herb, then monkey, then palm tree.
๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆParrots overheadParrot, then palm tree, then parrot.
๐ง๏ธ๐ด๐ฟRain in the canopyCloud with rain, then palm tree, then herb.
๐ง๏ธ๐ณRainforestCloud with rain, then deciduous tree.
๐ด๐ถ๐๐ดRiver crossingPalm tree, then canoe, then crocodile, then palm tree.
๐ฆฅ๐ณ๐คSloth, eventuallySloth, then deciduous tree, then ZZZ.
๐ณ๐Snake on a branchDeciduous tree, then snake.
๐ฟ๐ ๐ฟTiger in the leavesHerb, then tiger, then herb.
๐ด๐๐ฆ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ณThe whole junglePalm tree, then monkey, then parrot, then herb, then tiger, then snake, then deciduous tree.
Vine dividers 6
\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/Ferns in a row.
~'~,~'~,~'~,~'~A vine in plain ASCII: tildes for the stem, marks for the leaves. This page's own.
~~~{@}~~~{@}~~~A vine with two flowers.
๐ด๐ณ๐ด๐ณ๐ดCanopy linePalm tree, then deciduous tree, then palm tree, then deciduous tree, then palm tree.
๐ฟ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฟLeaf borderHerb, then leaf fluttering in wind, then herb, then leaf fluttering in wind, then herb.
๐ฟใฐ๏ธ๐ฟใฐ๏ธ๐ฟVine dividerHerb, then wavy dash, then herb, then wavy dash, then herb.
Jungle drawing 1
Palm tree, drawnSix lines: a palm with drooping fronds over a strip of undergrowth. Needs monospaced text.
Jungle in other languages 7
เคเคเคเคฒHindi, jaแน gal: forest or woods. The word English borrowed.
เคเคเฅเคเคฒSanskrit, jaแน gala. Wiktionary glosses it arid or sterile region, desert.
ใธใฃใณใฐใซJapanese, borrowed from English, by Wiktionary.
ๅขๆMandarin, cรณnglรญn: thicket, then forest.
ๅฏๆJungle in Mandarin, mรฌlรญn, and Japanese, mitsurin: dense, then forest, by the Unihan database.
ๆฃฎForest, as a Han characterU+68EE. Forest, or luxuriant vegetation, by the Unihan database.
selvaSpanish, from Latin silva, by Wiktionary.
Jungle lines 4
concrete jungle, one potted plantFor a city windowsill.
itโs a jungle out thereThe saying: the world is a harsh and dangerous place, in Wiktionaryโs words.
lost in the jungle, send snacksFor a long walk.
my desk is a jungleWiktionaryโs figurative sense: a tangled mess.
Jungle combos 8
๐๏ธ๐ดConcrete jungleCityscape, then palm tree.
๐ชด๐ป๐ชดDesk junglePotted plant, then laptop, then potted plant.
๐ด๐๐Jungle birthdayPalm tree, then birthday cake, then monkey.
๐ด๐Jungle catPalm tree, then cat.
๐ด๐๐ฆJungle classroomPalm tree, then books, then parrot.
๐ด๐JunglefowlPalm tree, then rooster.
๐ช๐ด๐ Out the door, into the jungleDoor, then palm tree, then tiger.
๐ง๏ธ๐ดโ๏ธRainy seasonCloud with rain, then palm tree, then umbrella.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 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). Unicode has no emoji named jungle: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds jungle, rainforest or liana. CLDR files tropical under seven emoji (Flamingo, Tropical fish, Palm tree, Lime, Pineapple, Mango, Tropical drink), forest under three (Hairy creature, Evergreen tree, Deciduous tree), ape under Orangutan alone, safari under Lion alone and wild under Broccoli alone; vine and wildlife lead to no emoji. That a jungle is dense forest and tangled growth, found mostly in tropical climates, that its wildlife cannot be straightforwardly defined because jungles are found on every inhabited landmass, that the word comes from Sanskrit jaแน gala, rough and arid, and reached English in the 18th century by way of the Hindustani word for forest, that travelers cut their way through a jungle while the understorey of a rainforest is open, and that jungle is still in common use for a tropical rainforest are from Wikipedia, Jungle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle, CC BY-SA 4.0); the closed canopy and the lianas of a rainforest from Wikipedia, Rainforest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest). The Hindi word, the Sanskrit gloss, the sense a tangled mess and the terms concrete jungle, jungle cat and junglefowl are from Wiktionary, jungle (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jungle, CC BY-SA 4.0) and its entries เคเคเคเคฒ, concrete jungle and it's a jungle out there (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/เคเคเคเคฒ, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concrete_jungle, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/it%27s_a_jungle_out_there); the Mandarin, Japanese and Spanish words from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ๅฏๆ, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ๅขๆ, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ใธใฃใณใฐใซ and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/selva. The meanings of the Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The animals are this page's picks for a scene and are not a list of what lives in a jungle. The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this siteโs 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 Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.