🧸

Teddy Bear Emoji 🧸

A brown teddy bear with a stitched smile and a ribbon at its neck, the classic stuffed animal every kid's room has one of. It shows up for nurseries, birthdays, and childhood nostalgia, and gets sent between adults too as a small stand-in for comfort when the moment calls for something soft.

What 🧸 means

A fluffy brown bear seated, with his head, slightly tilted to the left and his arms a little open (for a hug), while his legs are flatly set apart revealing details of his cute little paws.

The 🧸 Teddy Bear emoji represents the evergreen soft toy; a bear, also known as Teddy's bear. This emoji signifies fluffiness, soft-touch, cuddles, warmth, hugs, and all those precious emotions attached to one's toys.

How and when to use it

If someone's in need of hugs, big warm hugs, you could send 🧸 in that conversation, and trust us, it'll better the mood.
You could also use 🧸 to indicate cuddles in any context. For example, "I love cuddles! 🧸 And my doggo gives the bestest!" or "These days you gotta pay the price even for cuddles, man 🧸 with sadness".
If someone's cuddly as a teddy or warm or even as cute as one, you can use 🧸 to refer to that person! Like, "Oh, gosh. He's a teddy! I've never met someone like him 🧸".
If you're sending some virtual warmth to someone who's going through a tough time or is sick, send this guy - 🧸! For instance, "Don't worry, buddy. Everything gets better with time 🧸" or "You better look after yourself! Get well soon, my love 🧸".
A teddy bear also has treasured childhood memories and emotions attached to it. So, if you're referring to childhood in any framework, you can use 🧸.

Other Names

🧸 Teddy's Bear
🧸 Cuddly Bear
🧸 Warm Bear
🧸 Toy
🧸 Soft Toy
🧸 Teddy
🧸 Snugglebug
🧸 Fuzzy Wuzzy
🧸 Fuzzball

The lowdown

Category: Activities › game
Codepoints: U+1F9F8
Emoji version: Emoji 11.0
Shortcodes: :teddy_bear:
Keywords: bear, plaything, plush, stuffed, teddy, toy

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.