Beaver Emoji
A beaver with its flat tail and front teeth, for dams, woodwork and busyness.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Beaver emoji mean?
A beaver with its flat tail and front teeth, for dams, woodwork and busyness.
Industrious and slightly comic. The teeth do most of the work, so it lands as fond rather than flattering.
How to use 🦫 naturally
Canadian posts, nature photos and jokes about someone who will not stop building things.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of 🦫
- 2020
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Beaver was first defined as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. A full release across faces, animals, food and objects.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2020 with a flat crosshatched tail and two orange incisors. The tail is drawn almost flat to the viewer so the animal is identifiable without a dam beside it.
- Today
How its use evolved
Canadian posts, nature photos and jokes about someone who will not stop building things.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🦫 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Chewed straight through a tree by the river 🦫
Back at it before anyone else woke up 🦫
Canada trip, day three 🦫
When to use it
Using 🦫 clearly
Canadian posts, nature photos and jokes about someone who will not stop building things. It lands as beaver emoji or 🦫 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the beaver emoji
What does 🦫 mean in a text message?
A beaver with its flat tail and front teeth, for dams, woodwork and busyness. Industrious and slightly comic. The teeth do most of the work, so it lands as fond rather than flattering.
Is 🦫 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are beaver emoji, 🦫 meaning, animal emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🦫 look different on another device?
U+1F9AB identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the beaver emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🦫 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the beaver emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🦫 as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🦫 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F9AB | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🦫 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦫 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F9AB | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9AB} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%AB | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F9AB
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- beaver emoji🦫 meaninganimal emoji
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