Skunk Emoji 🦨

U+1F9A8

Emoji Meaning

Skunk, a mammal with a bushy tail, which in case of any danger produces an unpleasant smell. It's depicted in full profile with a distinctive white stripe from the head to the tail.

The symbol “Skunk” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 12.0 in 2019. In 2019, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 12.0 and added to the “Mammal” subcategory of the “Animals & Nature” category.

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Unicode Name	Skunk
Unicode Number
Plane	1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Subblock	Animal symbols
Unicode Version	12.0 (2019)
Emoji Version	12.0 (2019)
Emoji Category	Animals & Nature
Emoji Subcategory	Mammal
Emoji Name	Skunk

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	1F9A8
Simple case change	1F9A8
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	F0 9F A6 A8	240 159 166 168	4036994728	11110000 10011111 10100110 10101000
UTF-16BE	D8 3E DD A8	216 62 221 168	3627998632	11011000 00111110 11011101 10101000
UTF-16LE	3E D8 A8 DD	62 216 168 221	1054386397	00111110 11011000 10101000 11011101
UTF-32BE	00 01 F9 A8	0 1 249 168	129448	00000000 00000001 11111001 10101000
UTF-32LE	A8 F9 01 00	168 249 1 0	2834891008	10101000 11111001 00000001 00000000