Hamster emoji 🐹
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F439
What 🐹 means
Hamster 🐹 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, face, pet.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or face on your phone to find 🐹.
On the emoji keyboard, 🐹 sits with the mammals (66 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🐰 🐇 🐿️ 🦫.
Will 🐹 show on my friend's phone?
🐹 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🐹
To find 🐹 quickly, type hamster into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type hamster.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type hamster in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type hamster.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐹 as one code point, U+1F439: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F439 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐹 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐹 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F439"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F439} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%B9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 B9 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐹 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | hamster |
| Português | rosto de hamster |
| Español | hámster |
| Italiano | criceto |
| Français | hamster |
| Deutsch | Hamster |
| Türkçe | hamster |
| Bahasa Indonesia | hamster |
| Polski | głowa chomika |
| Русский | морда хомяка |
| 日本語 | ハムスターの顔 |
| 한국어 | 햄스터 얼굴 |
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the hamster emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐹 "hamster" and links it with animal, face, pet. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the hamster emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the hamster emoji?
To find 🐹 quickly, type hamster into the emoji search.