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🦔 Hedgehog
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🦔 Emoji meaning
Shyness, self-protection, retreating, hibernation, spines, Sonic.
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🦔 Meaning
Small and cute, but can fight back! Raises its quills if in danger. I want to coil up like a hedgehog! The hedgehog hibernates and perks up only at dusk. The most famous (blue) hedgehog from the Sonic video game runs as fast as the sound and collects rings.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Hedgehog vs rhinoceros; spiky silhouette vs horned large animal, but both unusual animals, easily mis-picked.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Hedgehog” was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 .
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 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ hedgehog + spiny
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(1) Comment
Anonymous My friends use it as a synonym for “cool“ or “gangster“.