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chipmunk

Chipmunk

Text and emoji forms

Same symbol, two display styles.

Text symbol

Emoji

The chipmunk emoji shows a small striped rodent, and it is also what people send when they mean a squirrel. It turns up for park sightings, acorn and nut snacks, and cheek-stuffed hoarding jokes.

EmojiSince 2014

Search it as: squirrel · nut · acorn · alvin
Type it as: :chipmunk:
Around since: 2014 · Emoji 0.7
Shows up on: Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

What 🐿️ means

🐿️ is the chipmunk emoji, filed under Animals & Nature in the animal-mammal subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.

It was added in Emoji 0.7 (2014) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 7.0 (2014).

How it is encoded

🐿️ is a sequence of 2 code points (U+1F43F U+FE0F), joined so that they render as one glyph. Software that counts characters will report 2, not 1 — the usual source of broken emoji handling.

It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.

Playful and wholesome in friendly chat; too cute for formal writing.

Do not assume the sender means chipmunk, not squirrel.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

Spotted a squirrel at the park

Literal cute rodent; the exact species is left loose.

With snack talk or hoarding jokes

Chipmunk hoarding snacks: stocking up or stuffing your cheeks.

Worth knowing

The chipmunk character defaults to plain text style; an invisible variation selector attached to it asks for the colour picture, so some systems without it show a black-and-white outline.

Questions people ask

Is this a squirrel emoji?

It can be. The artwork is a generic small rodent with a bushy tail, so people use it for squirrels as readily as chipmunks.

Can I use it for Alvin and the Chipmunks?

Yes. It pairs naturally with the cartoon chipmunk trio's songs, films, or childhood-nostalgia jokes.

How to type 🐿️

Windows

Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “chipmunk”.

macOS

Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.

iOS / Android

Emoji keyboard → search “chipmunk”.

Chat apps

:chipmunk:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.

HTML

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Codes and encoding2 code points

HTML decimal

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HTML hex

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CSS content

content: "\1F43F\FE0F";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%90%BF%EF%B8%8F

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Animals & nature145 symbols

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