U+1F9A1 "🦡" Badger Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦡
U+1F9A1 "🦡" Badger is a graphic symbol that represents the animal of the same name, a stout, burrowing mammal known for its distinctive black and white facial stripes and strong claws. This emoji was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0, falling under the Symbols category and within the Animal Mammal subgroup. Its digital depiction typically shows a full, side profile of a badger, often colored in shades of gray, black, and white, and is commonly used in messages or posts to represent the animal itself, or metaphorically to convey traits such as tenacity, ferocity, or a stubborn personality, drawing on the badger's real world reputation for persistence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9A1 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Badger |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA6 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udda1 |