🦨Skunk Emoji
Generally, the 🦨 emoji means something smells bad, literally or figuratively. People use it to express disgust or annoyance.
The 🦨 emoji is a skunk.
- Unicode
- U+1F9A8
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :skunk:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦨 Skunk emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Skunk emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9A8. 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.
Skunk emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :skunk:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the skunk, code point U+1F9A8.
How to type the 🦨 Skunk emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9A8 when there is no key at all.
Skunk 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
Skunk emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around skunk 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
Reads the same almost everywhere: something or someone that stinks, literally or socially, with little cultural variation.
Jokey shorthand for a bad smell or a person who made a mess of a situation.
Rarely used — feels too blunt as commentary on a colleague or an outcome.
Before you send it: Keep it for friends describing an actual smell or a self-deprecating joke, not for critiquing someone’s work.
What 🦨 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9A8, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🦨 Skunk emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.0, the skunk has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1F9A8 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.
Skunk was approved as U+1F9A8 and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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.