🦡Badger Emoji
Generally, the 🦡 emoji means you’re feeling a bit grumpy, protective, or like you're digging in your heels. It’s often used to show you're not giving up easily.
The 🦡 emoji represents a badger.
- Unicode
- U+1F9A1
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :badger:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦡 Badger emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Badger emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9A1. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Badger emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :badger:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9A1.
How to type the 🦡 Badger emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9A1 when there is no key at all.
Badger emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the badger 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
Badger emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around badger 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🦡 means in other countries
Mostly just the animal, though English has the verb “to badger” meaning to pester someone persistently.
Also ties to real debates over badger culls, a recurring rural-policy news topic.
Can imply “stop bugging me” when paired with a nagging or repeated request.
Before you send it: Use it for the animal or a light “quit bothering me” joke; it won’t land as an insult on its own.
What 🦡 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9A1, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🦡 Badger emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 11.0, the badger has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 8.
Same character every time — U+1F9A1 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.
Badger was approved as U+1F9A1 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.