Possum Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named possum: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds possum or opossum. CLDR files marsupial under two emoji (Koala, Kangaroo), joey under Kangaroo alone, pouch under Clutch bag alone, trash and garbage under Wastebasket alone, scream under Face screaming in fear alone and upside-down under Upside-down face alone; nocturnal and tail lead to no emoji. That opossums are American marsupials, that one species alone, the Virginia opossum, lives in the United States and Canada, that opossum is a Powhatan word first recorded between 1607 and 1611 and possum in 1613, that possum is sometimes written with an apostrophe for the dropped o, that the Australasian possums are a different order named for their resemblance, that opossums are nocturnal and shelter under houses, that playing possum is involuntary and copies the look and smell of a sick animal, and that hanging by the tail is commoner among the young are from Wikipedia, Opossum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum, CC BY-SA 4.0). The 1608 description (a head like a swine, a tail like a rat, the size of a cat), the 50 teeth, the hiss, the honeybee-sized newborn, the young riding on the mother's back, the trash cans, pet food and compost, the comparison with raccoons in towns, and that it is the northernmost marsupial are from Wikipedia, Virginia opossum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_opossum); that a raccoon is usually nocturnal is from Wikipedia, Raccoon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon). The gloss white animal, the German, Mandarin, Japanese and Spanish words are from Wiktionary, opossum (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/opossum, CC BY-SA 4.0); that possum is opossum with the first sound dropped, its Australian sense and the saying about the gum tree are from Wiktionary, possum (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/possum); the senses and first use of play possum from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/play_possum; Beutel and Ratte from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Beutelratte; the two readings of 袋鼠 from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/袋鼠; tlacuache and zarigüeya from their Wiktionary entries (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tlacuache, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zarigüeya). The meanings of the Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.