U+1F9F8 "🧸" Teddy Bear Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧸
U+1F9F8 "🧸" Teddy Bear is a pictographic representation of a classic plush teddy bear, typically depicted in a golden or light brown color with visible stitching and rounded features. This character falls under the category of emojis and is used in digital communication to symbolize comfort, childhood, nostalgia, or the act of giving a gift, as well as to express feelings of coziness, love, or the desire for reassurance. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of the Emoji 11.0 update, providing a simple yet emotionally resonant icon for a variety of sentimental or playful contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9F8 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Teddy Bear |
| 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 0xA7 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddf8 |