Water buffalo emoji 🐃
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F403
What 🐃 means
Water buffalo 🐃 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, buffalo, water, zoo.
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?
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015), 🐃 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🐃
To find 🐃 quickly, type water buffalo into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type water buffalo.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type water buffalo in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type water buffalo.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐃 as one code point, U+1F403: 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+1F403 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐃 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐃 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F403"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F403} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%83 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 83 |
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 | water buffalo |
| Português | búfalo-asiático |
| Español | búfalo de agua |
| Italiano | bufalo d’acqua |
| Français | buffle |
| Deutsch | Wasserbüffel |
| Türkçe | manda |
| Bahasa Indonesia | kerbau |
| Polski | wół domowy |
| Русский | буйвол |
| 日本語 | 水牛 |
| 한국어 | 물소 |
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What does the water buffalo emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐃 "water buffalo" and links it with animal, buffalo, water, zoo. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the water buffalo emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the water buffalo emoji?
To find 🐃 quickly, type water buffalo into the emoji search.