Try Teddy Bear emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Teddy Bear emoji mean?
A soft brown toy bear, for childhood and comfort.
Soft and fond. It suits children and comfort, and in a bio it signals something cosy.
How to use 🧸 naturally
Children, gifts, nostalgia and gentle affection.
Object emoji usually point to an activity or topic rather than an emotion. They work well as labels in lists, captions and announcements, where the image makes the subject easy to scan.
From standard to slang
The history of 🧸
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Teddy Bear was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A brown stuffed bear sitting with its arms out, added in 2018. It is a toy rather than an animal, which is why it sits beside the dolls and kites and not with 🐻.
- Today
How its use evolved
Children, gifts, nostalgia and gentle affection.
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.
First birthday sorted 🧸
Found my old one in the loft 🧸
Sending you something soft today 🧸
When to use it
Using 🧸 clearly
Children, gifts, nostalgia and gentle affection. It lands as teddy bear emoji or teddy emoji 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 teddy bear emoji
What does 🧸 mean in a text message?
A soft brown toy bear, for childhood and comfort. Soft and fond. It suits children and comfort, and in a bio it signals something cosy.
Is 🧸 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are teddy bear emoji, teddy emoji, 🧸 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🧸 look different on another device?
U+1F9F8 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 teddy bear 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 teddy bear emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🧸 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. 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+1F9F8 | 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 | \1F9F8 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9F8} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%B8 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F9F8
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- teddy bear emojiteddy emoji🧸 meaning
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