U+1F439 "🐹" Hamster Face Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F439 "🐹" Hamster Face is a graphical symbol belonging to the Emoji block, specifically categorized under animals and nature, and it depicts the face of a small, round hamster with prominent cheeks, a tiny nose, and rounded ears. It is commonly used in digital communication to represent the animal itself, as well as concepts like cuteness, pet ownership, or a fondness for small, cuddly creatures. This single code point, encoded in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, allows consistent rendering across different platforms and operating systems, though its exact visual appearance can vary in style and color from one platform to another. The character was added in response to the growing demand for diverse and expressive pictographic symbols in electronic messaging and social media.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F439
Version Added 6.0
Name Hamster Face
Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 🐹
HTML Hex Encoding 🐹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDC39
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F439
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udc39

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes