The badger emoji serves up the black-and-white striped burrow boss of the woods—tenacious, blunt, and a little chaotic. People drop it when they’re in “honey badger don’t care” mode, plowing through tasks or ignoring drama with feral focus. It also doubles as a punny clapback for “stop badgering me,” perfect when a friend has sent 47 follow-up texts. Old-school internet heads will sling it for the “Badger, badger, badger… mushroom, mushroom!” meme, summoning peak early-2000s absurdity with one tiny critter.
On Apple/iOS, the badger is a full-bodied European badger in profile, facing left: charcoal-gray body, black legs, a crisp white snout stripe flanked by dark facial patches, tiny ears, and a low, purposeful stalk—no smile, no background, just stealthy forest vibes in Apple’s smooth shading. The look reads sturdy and unbothered, ideal for captions about persistence, late-night productivity, or “do not test me” energy. Sports and fandoms borrow it too—hello, Wisconsin Badgers and Hufflepuff pride—while UK users might toss it into countryside chatter or wildlife updates. You’ll see it used playfully threatening (“I will badger my way through this inbox”), ironically cute (“feral but friendly”), or as a cozy forest-core accent alongside mushrooms and leaves.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 609 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 12 - 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) | 1f9a1 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9A1 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129441 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xA1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 A1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 241 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDA1 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edda1 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56737 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9A1 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9A1 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129441 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9A1" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\xa1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDA1" |
