Messaging about stinky smells and bad odors
Messaging about stinky smells and bad odors.
Animals & Nature
🦨 Skunk Emoji
The 🦨 Skunk emoji depicts a black skunk with a white stripe, commonly used for strong smells, bad odors, or playful scent jokes.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Skunk
- Category
- Animals & Nature
- Subcategory
- Animal Mammal
- Unicode
- U+1F9A8
- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The 🦨 Skunk emoji represents a skunk. It is sent when messaging about stinky smells, bad odors, trash scents, or making playful lighthearted jokes about smelly situations.
Quick Meaning
The 🦨 Skunk emoji depicts a black skunk with a white stripe, commonly used for strong smells, bad odors, or playful scent jokes.
Use Cases
How People Use 🦨
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Making playful jokes about smelly situations or food
Making playful jokes about smelly situations or food.
Discussing woodland wildlife
Discussing woodland wildlife.
Real Messages
🦨 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🦨.
“Something smells stinky over here 🦨”
“Spotted a skunk near the yard 🦨”
“That burnt food smells like a skunk 🦨”
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Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
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Official Name
Skunk
Subcategory: Animal MammalAliases & Common Names
- skunk
- stinky animal
- polecat
Keywords & Search Terms
- skunk
- stinky
- smell
- odor
- stripe
- wildlife
- animal
Developer Reference
🦨 Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F9A8Code points
U+1F9A8UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xA8UTF-16
\uD83E\uDDA8HTML decimal entity
🦨HTML hexadecimal entity
🦨JavaScript escape
\u{1F9A8}CSS escape
\1F9A8 Python string
\U0001F9A8Emoji Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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FAQ
Questions About 🦨
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
The 🦨 Skunk emoji depicts a black skunk with a white stripe, commonly used for strong smells, bad odors, or playful scent jokes.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
🦨 represents Skunk. It is used for wildlife, nature discussions, pets, and symbolic messaging.
The Unicode code point for 🦨 is U+1F9A8.
🦨 is usually the more general choice. 🦡 Badger is different because features facial stripes rather than a white back stripe.
Use the copy button on this page to copy 🦨, or select the emoji character directly and copy it from your browser.