Bison emoji 🦬
Emoji 13.0 (2020) · U+1F9AC
What 🦬 means
Bison 🦬 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, buffalo, herd, wisent.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or buffalo on your phone to find 🦬.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦬 sits with the mammals (66 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🐮 🐂 🐃 🐄.
Will 🦬 show on my friend's phone?
🦬 dates from Emoji 13.0 (2020). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🦬
To find 🦬 quickly, type bison into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type bison.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type bison in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type bison.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦬 as one code point, U+1F9AC: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9AC | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦬 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦬 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9AC"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9AC} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%AC | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 AC |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦬 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the bison emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦬 "bison" and links it with animal, buffalo, herd, wisent. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the bison emoji added?
In Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. Phones updated since about 2021 show it.
How do I type the bison emoji?
To find 🦬 quickly, type bison into the emoji search.