🦔Hedgehog Emoji
Usually, the 🦔 emoji just means "hedgehog. " People use it to show they find something cute or a little prickly.
The 🦔 emoji is a hedgehog.
- Unicode
- U+1F994
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :hedgehog:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦔 Hedgehog emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Hedgehog emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the hedgehog 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.
Hedgehog 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 :hedgehog:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F994.
How to type the 🦔 Hedgehog emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Hedgehog emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Hedgehog emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hedgehog 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
A beloved, mostly unambiguous animal — spiky but gentle, popular in UK garden culture and gaming fandom alike.
Genuine conservation icon; hedgehogs are a well-loved, declining garden species people actively protect.
Doubles as a nod to Sonic the Hedgehog in fan and meme contexts.
Before you send it: Safe in any tone — affectionate, protective or just cute; there’s no reading to avoid here.
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 🦔 Hedgehog emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F994 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.
Hedgehog was approved as U+1F994 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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.