→ 1F463 👣 footprints
Paw prints is the universal signal for tiny toe beans have been here, usually dropped into captions about pets, walkies, and chaotic zoomies. It’s perfect for soft-launching your new cat, announcing a puppy adoption, or decorating a bio with “dog dad | cat mom” energy. You’ll see it in shelter posts, groomer promos, and “pay the pet tax” photo dumps, often paired with #adoptdontshop and an overload of cuteness. It also doubles as a playful trail—like leaving breadcrumbs—when you’re “sneaking” into someone’s DMs or joking about stalking your ex’s profile, purely for research purposes, of course.
On Apple devices, it’s two charcoal‑gray paw marks arranged on a diagonal, each with four little oval toes and a big rounded pad, softly shaded with a slight gloss—no claws, just plush, instantly recognizable paw pads. Online, it can read cozy and affectionate (puppy love!), slightly feral (uwu kitten mode), or full-on fandom (hello, furry community). People drop it flirtatiously for “kittenish” vibes, or sarcastically after chaos: “Dog typed this 🐾.” It’s a go-to aesthetic divider in captions, a cute sign-off, and the unofficial emoji of pet-parent group chats, where every minor cough becomes a dramatic vet consult followed by 23 photos of the culprit napping.
Animal paw prints. Paw imprints or mark. Paw prints are left behind when an animal with paws walks on soft ground (paw imprint). Paw prints can also be made when an animal walks through mud or dirt and then walks on a surface flat hard surface (paw mark). This emoji is not associated with a particular animal and can be used when communicating about cats, dogs, lions, bears, raccoons, or any other animal with paws.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 358 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 | :feet: |
| Keywords | Paw, Prints, Mark, Imprints, Footsteps, Animal, Lion, Bear, Dog, Cat, Raccoon, Critter, Feet, Pawsteps |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Faces |
Footsteps if a human, paw prints if an animal. Why not pawsteps?
| Unicode Category | Human/living Things |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Faces |
| Names & Annotations | PAW PRINTS |
| Symbol Information | U+1F43E proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-1DB |
| DoCoMo | #91 'Foot' 足 U+E698 SJIS-F8F9 JIS-7A6D |
| KDDI | #276 足跡(犬) U+E4EE SJIS-F6C7 JIS-7649 |
| Softbank | #73 #old477 足跡 U+E536 SJIS-FBD6 |
| 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) | 1f43e |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F43E |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128062 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC3E |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc3e |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56382 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F43E |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F43E |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128062 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F43E" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC3E" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾇛 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾇛 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e698 | e4ee | fe1db |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E698 | U+E4EE | U+FE1DB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59032 | 58606 | 1040859 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9A 0x98 | 0xEE 0x93 0xAE | 0xF3 0xBE 0x87 0x9B |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9A 98 | EE 93 AE | F3 BE 87 9B |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 232 230 | 356 223 256 | 363 276 207 233 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE698 | 0xE4EE | 0xDBB8 0xDDDB |
| UTF-16 Hex | e698 | e4ee | dbb8dddb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59032 | 58606 | 56248 56795 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E698 | 0x0000E4EE | 0x000FE1DB |
| UTF-32 Hex | E698 | E4EE | 0FE1DB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59032 | 58606 | 1040859 |
| Python Src | u"\uE698" | u"\uE4EE" | u"\U000FE1DB" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9a\x98" | "\xee\x93\xae" | "\xf3\xbe\x87\x9b" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE698" | "\uE4EE" | "\uDBB8\uDDDB" |
