🦨 Skunk
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Emoji Meaning
1
A left-facing otter shown on all fours, typically rendered in black with distinctive stripes on its tail. Colloquially, it’s used to describe someone who smells bad—“stinky as a skunk”—or who has an unpleasant personality.
2
Skunks are small, furry mammals with striking black-and-white coloring and a bushy, striped tail. They’re well known for spraying powerful fetid odors to ward off predators.
Figuratively, calling someone a skunk can mean labeling them a smelly person — for example, a coworker who neglects hygiene rules.
Apple Name
- 🦨 Skunk
Unicode Name
- 🦨 Skunk
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🦨 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9A8
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%A8 |
| Punycode | xn--4t9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 A8 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDA8 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9a8 |
| CSS | \01F9A8 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9A8} |
| Perl | \x{1F9A8} |
| HTML hex | 🦨 |
| HTML dec | 🦨 |