U+1F9A8 "🦨" Skunk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦨
U+1F9A8 "🦨" Skunk is a pictographic representation of the small black-and-white mammal known for its distinctive defensive spray, and it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0 under the Animals & Nature category. The emoji is often used to symbolize the animal itself, its characteristic odor, or concepts related to avoidance, warning, or striking out alone, and it appears in digital communication across various platforms with slight stylistic variations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9A8 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Skunk |
| 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udda8 |