Bear Emoji

Animals

A cartoon-style brown bear face featuring rounded ears, a light-colored muzzle, and a small dark nose. The design presents a friendly, approachable look rather than a realistic depiction of a grizzly or polar bear.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss wildlife, nature, or camping trips. Beyond the literal animal, it is a popular choice for representing teddy bears, expressing affection, or referring to someone who is soft-hearted. It is often paired with the honey pot emoji or the paw prints emoji to build out a forest-themed message.

History

The bear was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2010. It emerged as part of the massive expansion of animal emojis intended to make digital communication more expressive and diverse, drawing heavily from the early illustrated icon sets used on Japanese mobile platforms.

Details

Glyph

🐻

Unicode

U+1F43B

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f43b:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC3B;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository