The tiger face pounces into chats with big-cat swagger and just the right amount of cute menace. It’s the head-only icon of a striped apex mood: fierce, confident, and ready to pounce on deadlines, workouts, or rival teams. On Apple/iOS it’s a bright orange face with bold black stripes, a white snout, tiny pink nose, whisker dots, and rounded ears—front-facing, cleanly shaded, and wearing that calm-but-powerful expression like it knows it’s top of the food chain. You’ll recognize the friendly smile that says, “I could cuddle… or conquer.”
People drop this emoji to say “beast mode,” hype a gym PR, or announce they’re feeling untouchable at work or school. It prowls into sports talk for any team named Tigers, and it roars on social when the Chinese zodiac hits Year of the Tiger. Online it doubles as a playful growl—think throwback “rawr XD” energy—or a flirty, predatory wink in DMs, often paired with fire and flex emojis. It also works sarcastically when someone acts tough but is giving more housecat than jungle, a gentle “sure, tiger” eye-roll. Expect it in zoo selfies, “Eye of the Tiger” montage jokes, and the occasional Tiger King meme; it even shows up in conservation posts when people talk about protecting big cats.
Definition
Yellow Tiger head with black stripes and white fur cheeks.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
131 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:tiger:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Cute Tiger Head
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Names & Annotations
TIGER FACE
Symbol Information
U+1F42F proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1C0
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[トラ]
KDDI
#345 トラ 「tora」 U+E5C0 SJIS-F7F0 JIS-7872
Softbank
#108 #old80 トラ 「tora」 U+E050 SJIS-F991
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e050
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E050
Decimal Code Point(s)
57424
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x81 0x90
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 81 90
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 201 220
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE050
UTF-16 Hex
e050
UTF-16 Dec
57424
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E050
UTF-32 Hex
E050
UTF-32 Dec
57424
Python Src
u"\uE050"
PHP Src
"\xee\x81\x90"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE050"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🐯
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🐯
Decimal HTML Entity
🐯
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🐯
Hex Code Point(s)
1f42f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F42F
Decimal Code Point(s)
128047
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xAF
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 AF
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 257
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC2F
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc2f
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56367
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F42F
UTF-32 Hex
01F42F
UTF-32 Dec
128047
Python Src
u"\U0001F42F"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\xaf"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC2F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
