🦊Fox Emoji
Generally, the 🦊 emoji means someone is being clever, a little sly, or just playfully mischievous. It’s often used to describe a clever idea or a clever person.
The 🦊 emoji represents a fox.
- Unicode
- U+1F98A
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :fox_face:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦊 Fox emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Fox emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the fox as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Fox emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :fox_face:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F98A.
How to type the 🦊 Fox emoji
No picker to hand? The fox can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Fox emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the fox 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
Fox emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around fox 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🦊 means in other countries
Cunning almost everywhere, but English slang also uses “foxy” for attractive, and East Asian folklore ties foxes to seduction.
“Fox/foxy” describes an attractive person, so the emoji can read as flirtatious.
Fox spirits in folklore are tied to trickery and seduction, not just cleverness.
Shorthand for being sly or clever, as in getting “outfoxed” by someone smarter.
Before you send it: Safe for cleverness jokes; know it can read as a compliment on looks if sent to someone specific.
What 🦊 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🦊 Fox emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F98A 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.
Fox was approved as U+1F98A and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.