The pig face is your pink, snout-first confession that you just demolished a plate of fries and have zero regrets. It’s used for food binges, messy-cute vibes, and that chaotic snort-laugh you let slip during a meme scroll. People drop it in mukbang captions, BBQ nights, brunch beast mode, or as a self-roast when they’re feeling a little feral in the snack cabinet. It can be playful-flirty too—send it with a takeout text and you’re basically saying feed me and I’m yours.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a bubblegum-pink, front-facing pig head with glossy black dot eyes, a soft tiny smile, and a big oval snout sporting two darker nostrils—plus perky triangle ears with lighter inner shading. It looks like a friendly sticker: round, shiny, and instantly recognizable, not the full-body farm pig but the classic emoji close-up. Culturally, it pops up in Peppa Pig memes, Miss Piggy-level drama posts, and nostalgic Babe references; it also shows up around Lunar New Year shoutouts for the Year of the Pig and abundance. Sarcastically, it can call out greed or overindulgence—oink oink, I did it again—yet most of the time it’s pure, goofy, snack-goblin charm.
Definition
3Dish looking pig with a snout and floppy ears.
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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)
142 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
:pig:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Pink Pig
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
PIG FACE
Symbol Information
U+1F437 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1BF
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#Exp.74 'Pig' ブタ 「buta」 U+E755 SJIS-F9FA JIS-7639
KDDI
#254 ぶた 「buta」 U+E4DE SJIS-F6B7 JIS-7639
Softbank
#106 #old101 ぶた 「buta」 U+E10B SJIS-F74B
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
1f437
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F437
Decimal Code Point(s)
128055
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xB7
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 B7
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 267
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC37
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc37
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56375
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F437
UTF-32 Hex
01F437
UTF-32 Dec
128055
Python Src
u"\U0001F437"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\xb7"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC37"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
