An orangutan, the orange-haired ape with long arms. Depicted facing forward, with a long broad face and sitting with its legs bent. Occasionally shown scratching its head. Color varies across platforms, ranging from orange to light brown.
This emoji is considered racist in some contexts, particularly when used to disparage, insult, and abuse people with dark skin, especially Black people.
Orangutan was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0 in 2019.
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