🦝 Raccoon

A raccoon, a nocturnal mammal with a mask around its eyes. Generally depicted as a friendly, cartoon-styled, gray raccoon face looking straight ahead, with black-and-white markings around its eyes and pointed ears and cheeks.

Apple and WhatsApp’s designs feature a raccoon in full profile on all fours facing left with a striped, bushy tail.

Raccoon was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.

🚩 New in 2018: requires updated software.