🐹Hamster Emoji
Generally, the 🐹 emoji just means a hamster. People use it to add a cute or silly element to their messages.
The 🐹 emoji represents a hamster.
- Unicode
- U+1F439
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :hamster:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐹 Hamster emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Hamster emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F439 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your hamster looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Hamster emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :hamster:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the hamster, code point U+1F439.
How to type the 🐹 Hamster emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Hamster emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the hamster as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Hamster emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hamster for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐹, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐹 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the hamster and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐹 means in other countries
A small-and-cute pet reference everywhere, with a specific extra meaning as a compliment on Asian social media.
“Hamster cheeks” is a common cute compliment for chubby cheeks.
Literal small-pet reference, straightforward in any pet-owner conversation.
Before you send it: Safe to send as a cute or affectionate note in almost any casual context you’re in.
What 🐹 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the hamster lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🐹 Hamster emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F439 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐹 existed there as
SoftBank E524.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Hamster was approved as U+1F439 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐹 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.