🦫Beaver Emoji
Generally, the beaver emoji means someone is working hard, focused, or building something – literally or figuratively. It’s often used to compliment someone's dedication.
The 🦫 emoji represents a beaver.
- Unicode
- U+1F9AB
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :beaver:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦫 Beaver emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Beaver emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the beaver 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.
Beaver 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 :beaver:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9AB.
How to type the 🦫 Beaver emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Beaver 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
Beaver emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around beaver 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
In American slang “beaver” is a crude term for female genitalia, so the cute rodent carries a second, sexual reading.
Casual and older slang read it as a sexual reference rather than the animal.
Understood literally — Canada’s national animal, dam-builder, no innuendo intended.
Before you send it: Skip it in flirty or ambiguous one-on-one chats; a beaver-dam photo caption is a safer context.
What 🦫 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the beaver lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🦫 Beaver emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 13.0, the beaver has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 6.
Same character every time — U+1F9AB 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.
Beaver was approved as U+1F9AB and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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.