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🦝

raccoon

Raccoon

🦝 means a raccoon, with a playful side: the snack-raiding “trash panda.” You can use it for cute mischief, petty theft jokes, or rummaging through literal or figurative garbage. If someone sends it to you, the surrounding message tells you whether you're the lovable troublemaker or the target of a dig.

EmojiSince 2018

Also called: trash panda
Search it as: Rocket Raccoon
Type it as: :raccoon:
Around since: 2018 · Emoji 11.0
Shows up on: Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

What 🦝 means

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

It was added in Emoji 11.0 (2018) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 11.0 (2018).

How it is encoded

🦝 is a single code point, U+1F99D.

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

Playful and informal: more snack thief than criminal mastermind.

A raccoon aimed at someone can sound like “trashy,” not just cute. Add words if you mean affection.

Don't confuse it with

🦊

Fox

Raccoon or fox? The fox suggests slyness; the raccoon's joke leans toward scavenging.

🦨

Skunk

The skunk suggests smell or spraying, rather than the raccoon's rummaging.

Combination ideas

Try it for a bin-raiding joke.

Suggested nod to Marvel's character Rocket Raccoon; needs that context.

Worth knowing

🦝 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.

Questions people ask

Does the raccoon look different on Apple?

Yes. In 2026, Apple and WhatsApp show the whole animal, while Samsung and Microsoft show its face. It's the same emoji.

How to type 🦝

Windows

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

macOS

Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.

iOS / Android

Emoji keyboard → search “raccoon”.

Chat apps

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

HTML

🦝

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🦝

HTML hex

🦝

CSS content

content: "\1F99D";

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

URL encoded

%F0%9F%A6%9D

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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