Hedgehog

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Shortcode
:hedgehog:
Unicode
U+1F994
HTML
🦔
CSS
\1F994
JavaScript
"\u{1F994}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%94

animalspiny

What ๐Ÿฆ” means

A small, spiny hedgehog. It means cute, cozy and a little prickly, the kind of creature that curls into a ball when nervous.

Pet owners post it for their hedgehogs, and autumn and woodland themes use it as decoration. It also describes someone sweet but defensive, and fans of the video game character Sonic use ๐Ÿฆ” for him.

Facts

Hedgehog ๐Ÿฆ” is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :hedgehog:. People also look for it with words like โ€œanimalโ€ or โ€œspinyโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. hedgehog, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. hedgehog, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. hedgehog, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20172017

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

animals & nature ยท Emoji 5.0