The wolf emoji brings big "lone wolf vs pack" energy: it signals stealth, resilience, protective vibes, or hunger—whether for snacks or, ahem, attention. People drop it when going off-grid to the woods, when demolishing a burrito, or when the group chat forms a "pack." In flirty/feral mode, it pairs nicely with the full moon and a typed "awoo" to say someone’s down bad; sarcastically, it’s perfect for roasting fake "alpha" talk and sigma male memes. Sports fans and school mascots use it for hype, while fantasy and horror crowds reach for it on werewolf movie nights. Cultural nods show up too: Duran Duran’s "Hungry Like the Wolf," Game of Thrones’ House Stark direwolves, Twilight’s Team Jacob, and the classic "wolf in sheep’s clothing" bit with 🐑.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing gray wolf head with pointy ears, white muzzle and cheeks, a shiny black nose, and alert eyes—clean shading and a tiny almost-smirk that says "don’t test me, but also I’m cute." The centered portrait stays crisp even at tiny sizes, so it works great in usernames, clan tags, and bio aesthetics. People also use it to broadcast nature-core energy, hiking plans, or night runs, and, ironically, to declare "I am the drama" during full-moon chaos. Combine with 🐾 for pack roll call or with 🌕 for instant howl-o’clock.
Definition
Clever looking animal with black eyes and a patch of white under his chin.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
193 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:wolf:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Wolf Face
Brown Fox
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Names & Annotations
WOLF FACE
Symbol Information
U+1F43A proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1D0
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#100 'Dog' 犬 U+E6A1 SJIS-F945 JIS-763C
KDDI
#134 猟犬 U+E4E1 SJIS-F6BA JIS-763C
Softbank
#117 #old465 おおかみ 「ookami」 U+E52A SJIS-FBCA
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e52a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E52A
Decimal Code Point(s)
58666
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x94 0xAA
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 94 AA
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 224 252
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE52A
UTF-16 Hex
e52a
UTF-16 Dec
58666
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E52A
UTF-32 Hex
E52A
UTF-32 Dec
58666
Python Src
u"\uE52A"
PHP Src
"\xee\x94\xaa"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE52A"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🐺
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🐺
Decimal HTML Entity
🐺
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🐺
Hex Code Point(s)
1f43a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F43A
Decimal Code Point(s)
128058
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xBA
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 BA
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 272
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC3A
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc3a
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56378
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F43A
UTF-32 Hex
01F43A
UTF-32 Dec
128058
Python Src
u"\U0001F43A"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\xba"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC3A"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
