The skunk emoji channels that black-and-white woodland celebrity with the legendary defense mechanism. On Apple/iOS, it’s a cute side-profile critter facing left, glossy black fur with a bold white racing stripe, a big fluffy tail curled up like a question mark, tiny paws, and a polite little snout—no green stink clouds, just deceptively adorable vibes. You can practically hear the tail swish, which IRL is your last warning before eau de nope. Visual shorthand: distinct stripe, plume tail, small ear, and a calm, cartoonish stance.
Online, people drop this emoji to say something stinks—bad takes, gym socks, suspicious leftovers, or messy drama—often paired with a nauseated face, wind, or nose-holding emojis for maximum “yikes.” It also doubles as gamer slang for a blowout (“we got skunked”), nods to strong-smelling beer or “skunky” bottles, and cheeky references to potent weed strains. Pop-culturally, it can wink at old-school Looney Tunes flirt chaos while acknowledging that the trope aged… weird. In texts, it swings from playful roast (“your playlist? skunk city”) to flirt-adjacent teasing (“dangerously cute but might ruin your night”). You’ll see it in posts about backyard wildlife, goth-cottagecore aesthetics, or secret “skunkworks” projects when the team’s cooking up something stealthy and spicy.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 496 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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| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - 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) | 1f9a8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9A8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129448 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xA8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 A8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 250 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDA8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edda8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56744 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9A8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9A8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129448 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9A8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\xa8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDA8" |
