Bear

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Shortcode: :bear:
Unicode: U+1F43B
HTML: 🐻
CSS: \1F43B
JavaScript: "\u{1F43B}"
URL: %F0%9F%90%BB

What 🐻 means

A friendly bear face, closer to a teddy than a grizzly. It reads as warm, cuddly and protective, and often goes with hugs.

In finance chat, 🐻 means a bear market or a pessimistic trader, the opposite of 🐂. Friends use it for cozy, sleepy or hungry moods, and camping posts use it as a wildlife warning.

In gay culture, a "bear" is a large, often hairy man, and 🐻 is used as a community symbol.

Facts

Bear 🐻 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bear:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “face”, “grizzly”, or “growl”.