Cow face emoji 🐮
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F42E
What 🐮 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Cow face 🐮 is tagged with these keywords: animal, cow, face, farm, milk, moo.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing animal or cow in the emoji search brings up 🐮.
Cow face 🐮 is one of 66 emoji in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to 🐂 🐃 🐄 🐷.
Will 🐮 show on my friend's phone?
🐮 is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type 🐮
Any emoji picker finds 🐮 when you search for cow face.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type cow face.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type cow face in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type cow face.
Codes for developers
Cow face 🐮 is a single code point, U+1F42E. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F42E | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐮 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐮 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F42E"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F42E} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%AE | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 AE |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐮 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | cow face |
| Português | rosto de vaca |
| Español | cara de vaca |
| Italiano | muso di mucca |
| Français | tête de vache |
| Deutsch | Kuhgesicht |
| Türkçe | inek yüzü |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wajah sapi |
| Polski | głowa krowy |
| Русский | морда коровы |
| 日本語 | 牛の顔 |
| 한국어 | 소 얼굴 |
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the cow face emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐮 "cow face" and links it with animal, cow, face, farm. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the cow face emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the cow face emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🐮 when you search for cow face.