• second of the signs of the Asian zodiac, used in Persia = beef (on menus)
The cow emoji is your go-to barnyard MVP: a full-bodied bovine that screams farm life, dairy runs, and the occasional “holy cow!” moment. People drop it for beef-related drama (pun very intended), to call something a cash cow, or when someone is clearly milking it for attention. It’s also big in cottagecore vibes, lactose-intolerance jokes, and throwback references like “Where’s the beef?” or the Friends “moo point” gag. On TikTok and Insta, it pairs nicely with cow-print nails, cowboy-core fits, and that pastoral aesthetic that makes you want to name a heifer Bessie and live off buttered toast.
On Apple devices, it’s a side-profile, left-facing Holstein with crisp black-and-white patches, tiny horns, a gentle eye, and a very visible pink udder—recognizable at a glance. The styling is glossy and softly shaded, like it’s mid-stroll past a cartoon pasture, tail relaxed and hooves neat. Because internet, it often lands as a reaction: moo-d achieved, peace restored, or irony engaged. Send it flirtatiously with a milkshake joke, sarcastically when the group chat has too much beef, or dramatically when a plot twist is utterly—sorry—udderly wild.
A cow (cattle) is the most common domesticated farm animal in the world. Cattle are used to feed most of the world, either through their milk production or for their meat (beef). They are also very powerful animals and can be used by people to pull objects. It's hard to imagine a world without cows as their hide (skin and hair) alone is used to make clothing, accessories, furniture and many other leather-based products. This emoji's stereotypical nick name is Bessie. Ask any child what a cow says, to which they will reply, "moo!"
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 258 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 | :cow2: |
| Keywords | Cow, Milk, Dairy, Beef, Bessie, Moo |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
Is Goofy a dog or a cow? You know his girlfriend is Clarabelle Cow. Not to mention, Pluto is a dog.
| 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) | 1f404 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F404 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128004 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x84 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 84 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 204 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC04 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc04 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56324 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F404 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F404 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128004 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F404" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\x84" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC04" |
