🦝Raccoon Emoji
Generally, the raccoon emoji means someone is being a bit sneaky or mischievous. It’s often used lightheartedly to describe a playful prank or a cute, slightly chaotic situation.
The 🦝 emoji is a raccoon.
- Unicode
- U+1F99D
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :raccoon:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦝 Raccoon emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Raccoon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the raccoon 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.
Raccoon emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :raccoon:.
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+1F99D.
How to type the 🦝 Raccoon emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Raccoon 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
Raccoon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around raccoon 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 raccoon and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🦝 means in other countries
In the US it’s the internet’s favorite trash panda; in Japan the similar-looking tanuki carries centuries of trickster folklore.
Read as the cheeky “trash panda” meme — clever, a little chaotic, harmless.
Visually close to the tanuki, a shapeshifting trickster spirit from folklore, not a literal raccoon.
Shorthand for messy-but-lovable behavior, as in self-deprecating “raccoon behavior” jokes.
Before you send it: Fine to send anywhere playful; just don’t expect Japanese readers to picture the same animal you do.
What 🦝 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F99D, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🦝 Raccoon emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F99D 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.
Raccoon was approved as U+1F99D and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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.