Hedgehog emoji 🦔
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F994
What 🦔 means
Hedgehog 🦔 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, spiny.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or spiny 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?
🦔 dates from Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🦔
To find 🦔 quickly, type hedgehog into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type hedgehog.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type hedgehog in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type hedgehog.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦔 as one code point, U+1F994: 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+1F994 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦔 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦔 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F994"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F994} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%94 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 94 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦔 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the hedgehog emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦔 "hedgehog" and links it with animal, spiny. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the hedgehog emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
How do I type the hedgehog emoji?
To find 🦔 quickly, type hedgehog into the emoji search.