• second of the signs of the Asian zodiac, used in Persia = beef (on menus)
All over TikTok and Insta, this one thrives alongside cow-print nails, cowboy-core outfits, and a soft, pastoral mood that practically dares you to christen a heifer Bessie and subsist on buttered toast. It’s a darling of cottagecore, a staple for lactose-intolerance humor, and a perfect wink to vintage lines like “Where’s the beef?” or the Friends “moo point” gag.
On Apple gear, expect a left-facing Holstein in side view: crisp black-and-white patches, tiny horns, a kind eye, and a very clear pink udder. The finish is glossy with gentle shading, as if it’s ambling through a cartoon meadow—tail easy, hooves tidy. Online, it often drops in as an all-purpose reaction: moo-d achieved, peace restored, irony engaged.
As the barnyard MVP of emojis, this full-bodied bovine signals farm life, dairy runs, and the occasional “holy cow!” moment. People fire it off for beef-related drama (pun very intended), to tag something as a cash cow, or when someone is blatantly milking it for attention. Use it flirty with a milkshake joke, snarky when the group chat has too much beef, or theatrically 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" |
