Spiky on top, soft underneath, the hedgehog emoji depicts a small animal that curls into a defensive ball when threatened. It's used for the literal pet — hedgehogs have become a popular exotic one — and for a prickly-but-secretly-sweet personality, guarded on the outside, gentle once you get close.
What 🦔 means
A full-body, side view of a hedgehog standing on all fours, with its signature spiny coat, a small head with tiny black eyes and a protruding snout, and a body lighter by a couple of shades from the coat.
The 🦔 Hedgehog emoji signifies a sense of being insanely cute, apart from being independent, self-defensive, a tendency to hibernate quickly, hardworking, and a natural ability to float on liquid or gas.
How and when to use it
- If you recently bought an adorable hedgehog, and you're sharing this bit of absolute bliss on your social media profile either as a picture, a video, or even a plain tweet, use 🦔 in all those contexts.
- Did you just bake a hedgehog themed cake (just the shape, not the flavor, EWW), or a cupcake for your kid or anybody else? Are you posting those amazingly skilled pictures on your social media handle? Then shy not! Use 🦔 in those post captions!
- If you're feeling threatened in any given conversation, you can use 🦔 to show that you're going to get out of there before you lose your mind. For example, "Hey, man. You wouldn't believe what just happened. A plain conversation with that person is so toxic, OMG!! I curled up immediately and got out of it!!! 🦔".
- Use 🦔 while posting or tweeting pictures or videos about hedgehogs, either your own pet or a little guy you came across on your street.
- If you love hedgehogs more than anything on the planet, then you must use 🦔 in your social media profile name.
Other Names
- 🦔 Urchin
- 🦔 Urcheon
- 🦔 Sonic the Hedgehog
- 🦔 Hedgepig
- 🦔 Spiny
- 🦔 Curl Into A Ball
- 🦔 Furze Pig
- 🦔 Hoglets (Baby Hedgehogs, adorbs, right?)
- 🦔 Boar (Male Hedgehog)
- 🦔 Sow (Female Hedgehog)
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F994- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0
- Shortcodes
:hedgehog:- Keywords
- animal, hedgehog, spiny
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 — 🦔 Hedgehog or 🥱 Yawning Face?
Runs with a crowd
🦔 keeps company in brown emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.