• second of the signs of the Asian zodiac, used in Vietnam
Massive, unbothered, and mud-spa chic, the water buffalo emoji brings big-horned, farm-strong energy to your chats. People use it for raw strength, stubborn focus, or to say they’re plowing through a to-do list like a paddy-field pro. It can double as a cheeky stand-in for “buff” vibes or that feeling of being “buffaloed” (confused, yet somehow still charging forward). Drop a whole herd and you’ve got a stampede of notifications or the squad rolling deep.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a side-profile, left-facing water buffalo with a dark charcoal-gray body, long crescent horns that sweep outward and back, a small calm eye, and a neutral, stoic face. The pose is steady on four legs with a slight 3D gloss and soft shading—very “solid unit” energy, tail relaxed, nothing ruffled. Those distinctive, wide-spreading horns are the instant visual giveaway.
Culturally, it nods to Asian agriculture, the carabao in the Philippines, and that quietly heroic draft animal life—plus foodie cred via mozzarella di bufala. Online, it’s used jokingly for herd mentality, Monday grind memes, or when someone’s being bull-headed (lovingly… or not). It sometimes stands in for the ox during Lunar New Year posts, though it’s not the American bison and not technically the zodiac ox. For extra spice, people toss it in with “big horn energy” when they want to flex with a wink.
A water buffalo is a powerful bovine herbivore (eats plants) that lives primarily in Asia. Water buffalos do well in hot environments, mostly because they love to lounge around and stay cool in water. Used by humans for milk as well as farming, such as ploughing rice fields or pulling carts.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 385 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 | :water_buffalo: |
| Keywords | Water, Buffalo, Asia, Bovine, Milk, Dairy |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
| 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) | 1f403 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F403 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128003 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x83 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 83 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 203 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC03 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc03 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56323 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F403 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F403 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128003 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F403" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\x83" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC03" |
