🦊

🦊 Emoji meaning

Clever, sly, adaptable, creative, intelligent.

🦊 Meaning

A sly and cunning loner who often appears in fairy tales and fables, is represented by the charming fox face emoji 🦊. Its orange-red face with black nose, pointed ears and fluffy white cheeks looks inviting and playful. In communication, the emoji can create a joking or affectionate mood, and can be used to describe someone as smart or cunning, as in the phrase “you sly old fox“. It is also a symbol of adaptability, as foxes can thrive in many different habitats. The fox emoji is also used to emphasize creativity and intelligence in a discussion or to pique someone's curiosity.

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Fox
Wolf

Fox vs wolf; both canine faces with pointed muzzles, only color and ear styling differ.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Fox” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal

In the release of Emoji 12.0 and Unicode 12.0 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

fox face

Emoji title after

fox

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- fox face

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ fox face

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ face + fox

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