What 🦫 means
The animal, or someone busy getting things done.
Use 🦫 for wildlife, dams, and gnawed trees. Applied to a person, it can suggest the English expression “eager beaver”: someone enthusiastic and hardworking, not necessarily someone flirting.
Friendly in wildlife or work talk; potentially crude in flirtation.
Avoid sexual beaver jokes unless you know they are welcome.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAfter a work-progress update
A nod to your hard work.
Beside Canada talk or a maple leaf
Canadian identity, pride, or a Canada joke.
Worth knowing
- 🦫 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Does the beaver emoji have a sexual meaning?
It can. “Beaver” is vulgar English slang for vagina. Sexual wording makes that reading more likely; the animal alone is not an explicit proposition.
How to type 🦫
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “beaver”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “beaver”.
Chat apps
:beaver:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🦫Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🦫
HTML hex
🦫
CSS content
content: "\1F9AB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A6%AB
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.