Teddy bear

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Shortcode
:teddy_bear:
Unicode
U+1F9F8
HTML
🧸
CSS
\1F9F8
JavaScript
"\u{1F9F8}"
URL
%F0%9F%A7%B8

bearplaythingplushstuffedteddytoy

What ๐Ÿงธ means

Soft, brown and huggable, the teddy means comfort, childhood, cuddles and sweetness.

People send it for a virtual hug, to someone sick or sad, or as a pet name for a cuddly partner. It fits baby showers and Valentine's gifts too.

Facts

Teddy bear ๐Ÿงธ is an emoji in the activities category, under game. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :teddy_bear:. People also look for it with words like โ€œbearโ€, โ€œplaythingโ€, โ€œplushโ€, or โ€œstuffedโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. teddy bear, Google (Noto) design from 20182018
  2. teddy bear, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. teddy bear, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

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

activities ยท Emoji 11.0