🦊 Fox

The 🦊 Fox emoji belongs to the mammals, filed by Unicode under Animals & Nature. It usually appears in messages about animal and face.

🦊 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. Added in 2016 with Emoji 3.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F98A.

• A single 🦊 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about animal and face.
• Often seen near 🦝 Raccoon, 🐺 Wolf and 🐩 Poodle.

In Japan the fox – kitsune – is a messenger of the rice deity Inari and a shapeshifter that gains extra tails with age; thousands of stone foxes stand at Inari shrines. In Europe it is the cunning trickster of Reynard the Fox, and in North America often simply a handsome woodland animal.

In chat, 🦊 now mostly signals cleverness or – through the English double meaning of foxy – attractiveness.

• 🦊🦝 – Fox and Raccoon
• 🦊🐈️ – Fox with Cat
• 🦊🐱 – Fox plus Cat Face
• 🦊🐺 – Fox and Wolf
• 🦊🦮 – Fox with Guide Dog
• 🦊🦁 – Fox plus Lion
• 🦊🐶 – Fox and Dog Face
• 🦊🐈‍⬛ – Fox with Black Cat

Easy to mix up with 🦝 Raccoon, 🐺 Wolf or 🐩 Poodle. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.