This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F9A8 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “skunk” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: animal, stink.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0EVariation Selector-15: 🦨︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Skunks are mammals in the family Mephitidae. They are known for their ability to spray a liquid with a strong, unpleasant scent from their anal glands. Different species of skunk vary in appearance from black-and-white to brown, cream or ginger colored, but all have warning coloration.
While related to polecats and other members of the weasel family, skunks have as their closest relatives the Old World stink badgers.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
129448
UTF-8
F0 9F A6 A8
UTF-16
D8 3E DD A8
UTF-32
00 01 F9 A8
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%A6%A8
HTML hex reference
🦨
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
🦨
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
95 30 DC 32
RFC 5137
\u'1F9A8'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001F9A8
C and C++
\U0001F9A8
C#
\U0001F9A8
CSS
\01F9A8
Excel
=UNICHAR(129448)
Go
\U0001F9A8
JavaScript
\uD83E\uDDA8
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1f9a8}
JSON
\uD83E\uDDA8
Java
\uD83E\uDDA8
Lua
\u{1F9A8}
Matlab
char(129448)
Perl
"\x{1F9A8}"
PHP
\u{1f9a8}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01F9A8'
PowerShell
`u{1F9A8}
Python
\U0001F9A8
Ruby
\u{1f9a8}
Rust
\u{1f9a8}
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