🫏 Donkey

🫏 Emoji Meaning

The 🫏 donkey emoji generally represents a donkey, the domesticated hoofed mammal related to the horse. However, like many emojis, it can have a range of meanings depending on context. Here are some of the most popular:

• Literal Donkey: Simply referring to the animal itself. This could be in discussions about farms, animals, wildlife, or even specific breeds of donkeys.
• Stubbornness: Donkeys are often stereotyped as stubborn animals. The emoji can be used playfully or critically to describe someone or something as obstinate or unwilling to change their mind.
• Hard Work/Burden Bearer: Donkeys are traditionally used as working animals, carrying heavy loads. The emoji might be used to represent hard work, carrying a heavy burden (literal or metaphorical), or feeling overloaded.
• Calling someone a "Donkey" (insult): Similar to calling someone a "fool" or "idiot," the emoji can be used as a mild insult. The severity depends heavily on context and relationship between the people communicating.
• Democratic Party (US Politics): In the United States, the donkey is the symbol of the Democratic Party. The emoji can be used in political discussions or to express affiliation with the party. (Less common than the elephant emoji for the Republican Party, but still used.)
• Representing a specific character or story: This could be a reference to a donkey character from a book, movie, or TV show, such as Donkey from the Shrek franchise.

It's crucial to consider the surrounding text and the relationship with the person sending the emoji to accurately interpret its intended meaning.

Donkey Emoji Images

Here is how Donkey emoji looks like on iPhone, Android, Facebook, Messenger and X:

Animal-Mammal Related Emoji

Here is a list of other emojis from the Animals & Nature category, Animal-Mammal subcategory:

• 🐄 Cow
• 🐮 Cow Face
• 🦌 Deer
• 🐕 Dog
• 🐶 Dog Face
• 🐘 Elephant
• 🐑 Ewe
• 🦊 Fox
• 🦒 Giraffe
• 🐐 Goat