Pointed ears and a sly, knowing expression mark the fox emoji's face, the go-to symbol for cunning or cleverness: 'sly as a fox.' It also doubles as an old-school compliment — calling someone 'foxy,' meaning attractive.
What 🦊 means
A friendly face of a fox, covered in red or brown fur, with beady black eyes and pointy, triangular ears, looking straight ahead. A distinct feature is its "beard", which is in a different shade than the rest of its face.
🦊 encompasses all the characteristics of a clever trickster while also appearing cute and friendly. Different platforms use their own shades and designs to depict this emoji, including the additional use of colors grey, white, and orange.
How and when to use it
- The fox is often portrayed in fiction to be a trickster, and this characteristic can be well represented by 🦊.
- A bold compliment to an attractive person (especially a woman) is the word "Foxy", the emoji equivalent of which is 🦊.
- If a person displays clever or cunning behavior which can be compared to a fox's, then the metaphor can be depicted through 🦊.
- If a literal fox is in the subject matter, or if it involves wildlife in general, 🦊 has its place there.
Other Names
- 🦊 Fox Face
- 🦊 Fox Cub
- 🦊 Wild Dog
- 🦊 Vixen
- 🦊 Trickster
- 🦊 Clever
- 🦊 Reynard
🦊 in real conversations
What does 🦊 mean from a girl?
Attractive, in the old "foxy" sense of the word, or cleverness dressed up as a compliment. "He's a 🦊" can mean either good-looking or sly and a little too smooth.
What does 🦊 mean from a guy?
Usually cunning rather than looks — outsmarting someone, pulling off a sly move, staying one step ahead. "Got the last ticket, 🦊 mode" is bragging about being clever, not vain.
What does 🦊 mean in texting?
Cleverness or sly charm, borrowing straight from "sly as a fox." It works as a reaction to someone's smart move just as often as it works as an old-school compliment about looks.
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F98A- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:fox_face::fox:Discord- Keywords
- animal, face, fox
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🦊 Fox or 🍊 Tangerine?
Runs with a crowd
🦊 keeps company in animal emojis and orange emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.