(Honey) Badger emoji

[Crissov]

Characteristically all black and white, the Badger is the animal of the Hufflepuff House in the Harry Potter franchise. Honey Badgers are related and look similar, but have longer legs for instance. A combined emoji should be possible nevertheless.

Petitions

• change.org: Badger
• Go Petition: Honey Badger

Proposals

• L2/17-161 = N4794 includes an argument by the British NSB that Badger and Squirrel Squirrel emoji #108 should also be added if Hedgehog is.

[Crissov]

The ISO/IEC working group WG2 who jointly develop the single characters set with Unicode, agreed to add several pictographs intended for emoji usage:

• U+1F93F BILLIARD GAMES
• U+1F97B TROLL Troll emoji #227
• U+1F9A1 MAMMOTH Mammoth emoji #360
• U+1F9A2 DODO Dodo emoji #143
• U+1F9A3 BADGER
• U+1F9A4 SQUIRREL Squirrel emoji #108
• U+1F9A5 SWAN Swan emoji #94

Sources

• N4870
• L2/17-350 = N4566
• L2/17-329 = N4888

Proposal

• L2/17-404