Gorilla emoji meaning

The gorilla emoji is a depiction of a large, black ape with a round face and prominent brow. It typically has a serious expression and is shown standing upright with its arms by its sides. The emoji is often used to represent gorillas or to reference ape-like behavior or characteristics. It can also be used more generally to refer to primates or to make a playful reference to someone acting in a silly or wild manner.

The gorilla emoji was approved in Unicode 9.0 and added in Emoji 3.0, see related proposal L2/14174