Meaning
A small spiny mammal, often used to represent hedgehogs, cute animals, or wildlife.
Category: Animals & Nature
🦔hedgehog
🦔 hedgehog belongs to Animals & Nature. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:hedgehog:
Keywords
animalspinyhedgehog
What does 🦔 hedgehog mean?
The hedgehog emoji depicts the small, spiny mammal of the same name. It is most often used literally to talk about hedgehogs seen in the wild, kept as pets, or featured in media. Depending on context, it can also be used more broadly to represent cute animals or nature.
Often used for
- Mentioning seeing a hedgehog in the wild or in a garden
- Posting about a pet hedgehog
- Discussing cute or spiny animals
- Sharing wildlife or nature photos
Tone: The emoji generally carries a cute, harmless tone. However, it is also used figuratively to represent being prickly, shy, or defensive, or to reference the character Sonic the Hedgehog.
Illustrative message examples with 🦔
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- found a little guy in the backyard 🦔
- my friend just got a pet hedgehog 🦔 so cute
- look at this little guy 🦔
- saw a hedgehog crossing the road tonight 🦔
- feeding the hedgehogs in the garden 🦔
Combos, text art & scenes with 🦔
How 🦔 hedgehog looks
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OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🦔 hedgehog codes for developers
Every format below produces 🦔 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 🦔 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F994 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦔 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🦔 | |
| CSS | \1F994 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F994} | |
| JSON | \uD83E\uDD94 | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%94 | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :hedgehog: |
🦔 in other languages
SpanisherizoFrenchhérissonGermanIgelItalianriccioPortugueseporco-espinhoRussianежJapaneseハリネズミKorean고슴도치Chinese刺猬LithuanianežysPolishjeż
Source: Unicode CLDR