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Hairy Creature Emoji
Unicode added hairy creature in Emoji 17.0 (2025), filed under People & Body → Fantasy. Its codepoint is U+1FAC8, and it is tagged bigfoot, cryptid and forest.
What hairy creature means
Santa, angels, and the 2017 batch of fantasy figures - 🧙, 🧚, 🧛, 🧜, 🧝, 🧞, 🧟 - which Unicode added as a set with man, woman and neutral variants. They get used for Halloween and tabletop games, but also metaphorically: 🧚 for something whimsical, 🧟 for how you feel before coffee, 🦸 for anyone who did you a favor.
Unicode tags this one bigfoot, cryptid and forest and files it under People & Body → Fantasy.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FAC8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🫈 | |
| HTML decimal | 🫈 | |
| CSS | \1FAC8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAC8} | |
| Python | \U0001FAC8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDEC8 | |
| Rust | \u{1fac8} | |
| Swift | \u{1FAC8} | |
| PHP | \u{1FAC8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AB%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB 88 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DEC8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+riA== | |
| Decimal | 129736 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 17.0 (2025) | |
Keywords
- bigfoot
- cryptid
- forest
- giant
- hairy
- sasquatch
- woodwose
- yeti
Appears in these collections
How to type
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “hairy creature”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bigfoot”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fac8and Enter. - HTML — paste
🫈.
How renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- Apple
- Segoe
- Noto
- System
Frequently asked questions
What does the hairy creature emoji mean?+
is the hairy creature emoji, tagged bigfoot, cryptid and forest. Santa, angels, and the 2017 batch of fantasy figures - 🧙, 🧚, 🧛, 🧜, 🧝, 🧞, 🧟 - which Unicode added as a set with man, woman and neutral variants. They get used for Halloween and tabletop games, but also metaphorically: 🧚 for something whimsical, 🧟 for how you feel before coffee, 🦸 for anyone who did you a favor.
What is the Unicode code for ?+
hairy creature is U+1FAC8. In HTML that is 🫈, in CSS \1FAC8, and in JavaScript \u{1FAC8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the emoji added?+
hairy creature got its emoji presentation in Emoji 17.0 (2025). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Fantasy in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 17.0 (2025)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as hairy creature.