| Emoji | 🦔 |
| Name | hedgehog |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F994 |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Subcategory | Animal Mammal |
| Emoji Version | 5 |
| Tags | animal, spiny |
| Decimal Value | 129428 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F994 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🦔 / 🦔 |
The hedgehog emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).
Category context: The Animals & Nature category spans wildlife, pets, insects, marine life, plants, and weather — among the most globally recognizable and culturally neutral emoji, since animals and nature are common reference points across languages.
Cataloged under Animal Mammal within the Animals & Nature category, hedgehog is the 90th of 160 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 5 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F994.
💡 Good to know: For educational or scientific content, pairing this emoji with the actual species or term name avoids ambiguity, since emoji renderings can be stylized rather than scientifically precise.
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The hedgehog emoji is Unicode U+1F994.
The hedgehog emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).