Skunk Emoji 🦨

This emoji shows a skunk, a mammal with a bushy tail. It is on all fours, facing left, it has a black hair and a prominent white stripe running from its head to its tail. The skunk is known for spraying a liquid with a foul odor when threatened.

🦨 Skunk is a fully-qualified emoji, part of Unicode 12.0 , introduced in 2019, and was added to Emoji 12.0 .

This emoji is part of the Animals & Nature and is grouped with other Animal Mammal emojis. Part of the Unicode Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block. Introduced in 2019.

To find this emoji, you can use the following keywords:

  • Copy and paste the Skunk emoji:

  • 🦨

Codes & Encoding for the Skunk Emoji

Click any code below to copy it to your clipboard.

  • CodepointU+1F9A8 ✓ Copied
  • HTML (decimal)🦨 ✓ Copied
  • HTML (hex)🦨 ✓ Copied
  • CSS\1F9A8 ✓ Copied
  • JavaScript\u{1F9A8} ✓ Copied
  • URL-encoded%F0%9F%A6%A8 ✓ Copied
  • Shortcode:skunk: ✓ Copied
  • Unicode block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs

How to Type the Skunk Emoji

  • iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
  • Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
  • Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
  • macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
  • Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
  • Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
  • Slack Type :skunk: (autocompletes to the emoji)
  • Discord Type :skunk: (autocompletes to the emoji)

Skunk Emoji on Different Platforms

How to Use the Skunk Emoji

  • Watch out for the 🦨 in the backyard.
  • That cartoon character is a cute 🦨.
  • We saw a 🦨 while hiking in the woods.

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