People & Body · Emoji 17.0

Hairy Creature emojiHairy Creature Emoji

Means Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or anything mysterious and elusive, often a joke about someone being hard to find or a little wild. Sent for cryptid humor.

It shows a tall, hairy, ape-like figure straight out of cryptid legend, joining the emoji set in 2025 as a nod to Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti folklore.

Download PNG / SVG
Unicode
U+1FAC8
Released
2025
Shortcode
:hairy_creature:
Skin tones
No

Added in Emoji 17.0. On phones older than iOS 26.4, or an Android phone without a 2026 update, it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.

U+1FAC8Twitter / X
Hairy Creature emoji, Twitter / X design

01 — Meaning

What does the 🫈 Hairy Creature emoji mean?

In plain english
Means Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or anything mysterious and elusive, often a joke about someone being hard to find or a little wild. Sent for cryptid humor. 🫈 sits in hand emojis, where it is listed next to everything used the same way.
Where it comes from
It shows a tall, hairy, ape-like figure straight out of cryptid legend, joining the emoji set in 2025 as a nod to Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti folklore. It’s mostly used in jokes, comparing someone who’s rarely seen to a mythical creature, or just for fun cryptid and forest-lore references online.
Also known as

People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.

bigfoot emojicryptid emojiforest emojigiant emojihairy emojisasquatch emojiwoodwose emojiyeti emoji

People also look for it as bigfoot emoji.

02 — Platforms

Hairy Creature emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X

Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the hairy creature as 4 vendors ship it.

Hairy Creature emoji on Apple
AppleiPhone, iPad, macOS
Hairy Creature emoji on Google
GoogleAndroid, Gmail, Chrome
Hairy Creature emoji on Twitter / X
Twitter / XX, Discord, Twemoji apps
Hairy Creature emoji on OpenMoji
OpenMojiOpen-source, design systems

See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.

03 — Copy & codes

Hairy Creature emoji copy and paste

Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :hairy_creature:.

All emoji copy and paste →

In your code

Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the hairy creature, code point U+1FAC8.

04 — How to type

How to type the 🫈 Hairy Creature emoji

No picker to hand? The hairy creature can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.

iPhone & iPad
Tap the smiley or globe key at the bottom-left of the keyboard, then search “hairy creature”. No emoji key? Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard → Emoji.
Android
On Gboard tap the smiley key, or long-press the Enter or comma key. On Samsung Keyboard the emoji button sits behind the gear icon.
Windows & Mac
Windows: press Win + . for the emoji panel. Mac: Control + Command + Space. Then type “hairy creature”.
Slack & Discord
Type the shortcode :hairy_creature: and it converts to 🫈 as you send. The full set is on the Discord emoji page.
Websites & code
In HTML use 🫈, in CSS \1FAC8, in JavaScript \u{1FAC8}.
No picker to hand? The online emoji keyboard works in any browser, and every character on the site is listed on emoji copy and paste.

05 — Download

Hairy Creature emoji PNG and SVG

Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 4. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.

Emoji PNG library →
Download Hairy Creature emoji, Apple style Apple PNG · 64px Download Hairy Creature emoji, Google style Google PNG · 160px Download Hairy Creature emoji, Twitter / X style Twitter / X SVG vector Download Hairy Creature emoji, OpenMoji style OpenMoji SVG vector

06 — Combinations

Hairy Creature emoji combinations

Ready-made combos built around hairy creature for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.

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Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.

07 — In conversation

What 🫈 means from a girl or a guy

Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.

From a girl
When a girl sends this, she’s usually joking about someone being impossible to track down or comparing a person’s wild hair or appearance to Bigfoot in a teasing, affectionate way. It’s playful rather than a serious insult.
From a guy
A guy typically sends this as a joke about cryptids, camping trips, or teasing a friend who’s been MIA lately, comparing them to Bigfoot. It’s more about humor than any real meaning behind it.
How to reply
If someone sends you 🫈, you could reply with: “Rude, but fair,” “Spotted in the wild,” or “I’ve been called worse.”
Used in a sentence

08 — Apps

What 🫈 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord

Chat apps do not change U+1FAC8, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.

TikTok & Instagram
Means Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or anything mysterious and elusive, often a joke about someone being hard to find or a little wild. Sent for cryptid humor. In comments and captions it is read the same way — the tone comes from what it sits next to.
WhatsApp
WhatsApp draws 🫈 with Apple-style artwork on every phone, so it looks identical for both sides. A message with only 🫈 in it is shown enlarged.
Discord & Slack
Both accept the shortcode :hairy_creature:. Discord renders Twemoji, so 🫈 looks different there than on your phone.
Outlook & email
Outlook has no emoji picker on desktop — press Win + . or Control + Command + Space inside the message body, or paste 🫈 from the copy button above.

10 — History

Where the 🫈 Hairy Creature emoji came from

It arrived with the 17.0 release of the standard, which dates the hairy creature to 2025.

2025
Added to the standard

Hairy Creature was approved as U+1FAC8 and shipped in Emoji 17.0 (2025). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.

Today
Drawn 4 different ways

Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🫈 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.

11 — FAQ

Hairy Creature emoji — questions people actually ask

What does the 🫈 Hairy Creature emoji mean?
Means Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or anything mysterious and elusive, often a joke about someone being hard to find or a little wild. Sent for cryptid humor.
What does 🫈 mean from a girl?
When a girl sends this, she’s usually joking about someone being impossible to track down or comparing a person’s wild hair or appearance to Bigfoot in a teasing, affectionate way. It’s playful rather than a serious insult.
What does 🫈 mean from a guy?
A guy typically sends this as a joke about cryptids, camping trips, or teasing a friend who’s been MIA lately, comparing them to Bigfoot. It’s more about humor than any real meaning behind it.
How do you reply to the 🫈 emoji?
If someone sends you 🫈, you could reply with: “Rude, but fair,” “Spotted in the wild,” or “I’ve been called worse.”
What else is the 🫈 emoji called?
Hairy Creature is the official Unicode name, but people search for it as “bigfoot emoji”, “cryptid emoji”, “forest emoji”, “giant emoji”, “hairy emoji”, “sasquatch emoji” and more. They all refer to the same character, U+1FAC8.
What is the Unicode code for 🫈?
The Hairy Creature emoji is U+1FAC8, added in Emoji 17.0 (2025). In HTML you can write it as 🫈, and in CSS as \1FAC8.
How do I copy and paste the 🫈 emoji?
Tap the copy button at the top of this page — 🫈 goes straight to your clipboard and pastes into Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Discord or any text field. You can also copy its shortcode :hairy_creature: for Slack and Discord.
Does 🫈 look the same on every phone?
No. Hairy Creature is drawn separately by each vendor — Apple, Google, Twitter / X and OpenMoji all ship their own artwork for U+1FAC8. The character you send is identical; only the picture changes.