Small-pet cuteness peaks with the hamster emoji, round-cheeked and pocket-sized, cheek-stuffing habit and all. It also carries the 'hamster wheel' idiom — running hard and getting nowhere, the daily grind of a repetitive routine.
What 🐹 means
The cute face of a hamster with friendly eyes, round ears, long whiskers and a button nose. The fur on its face appear in patches of brown and white.
The 🐹 emoji mainly signifies the cute adorability that hamsters exhibit. It also suggests smallness in size and its harmless nature. Different platforms vary in their depictions of this emoji in terms of design and color.
How and when to use it
- 🐹 can be used to represent cuteness and adorability.
- Hamsters are known for being totally harmless and innocent. This characteristic can be well represented by the 🐹 emoji.
- 🐹 can also be used to create a tone of friendliness.
- You could use 🐹 to represent delicateness or even sensitivity of someone.
Other Names
- 🐹 Pet Hamster
- 🐹 Hamster Wheel
- 🐹 Rodent
- 🐹 Syrian Hamster
- 🐹 Golden Hamster
- 🐹 Furry Little Things
- 🐹 Kids Pet
- 🐹 Hamster Cage
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F439- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:hamster:- Keywords
- animal, face, hamster, pet
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 — 🐹 Hamster or ☃️ Snowman?
Runs with a crowd
🐹 keeps company in animal emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.