The final original emoji set from NTT Docomo. Initially installed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/service/docomo_mail/appli/deco/pictograph/index.html">on carrier handsets running&nbsp;Android 4.3 and 4.4</a>&nbsp;and later discontinued&nbsp;and replaced with <a href="/google/">standard Google emoji designs</a> on&nbsp;phones from NTT Docomo in Japan.

2013

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a hamster&mdash;a small rodent often kept as a pet&mdash;looking straight ahead. Generally depicted as a brown-and-white faced hamster with whiskers, a pink nose, puffy cheeks, and large, round, pink ears, sometimes with a buck tooth.

Often used with an affectionate tone. May be used to represent a gerbil, guinea pig, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchilla">chinchilla</a>, or related animals. Does not have a full-bodied hamster emoji counterpart.

Not to be confused with <a href="/mouse-trap/">🐭 Mouse Face</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s hamster was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/hamster/">previously</a> gray.

Hamster Face

An updated version of the NTT Docomo emoji set <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070108235809/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp:80/binary/pdf/service/imode/mail/imode_mail/emoji_convert/pictogram.pdf">first in use in 2006</a>&nbsp;and remaining in use <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080920215707/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp:80/binary/pdf/service/mail/imode_mail/function/emoji_convert/pictogram.pdf">until at least 2008</a>. This is the version of the Docomo emoji set&nbsp;<a href="https://stories.moma.org/the-original-emoji-set-has-been-added-to-the-museum-of-modern-arts-collection-c6060e141f61">displayed</a> at the Museum of Modern Art.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

🐹 Hamster on undefined 2006

🐹 Hamster on undefined 2006

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