• eighth of the signs of the Asian zodiac, used in Vietnam
Culturally, it fuels the never-ending GOAT debates: Messi or Ronaldo, MJ or LeBron, Serena, Beyoncé, Taylor—toss in the goat and watch the comments spiral. On Twitch and TikTok, “goated” means exceptionally good, often paired with a crown, fire, 100, or a trophy. It also pops up for Capricorn season, for “scapegoat” jokes, and as a nod to the screaming-goat and fainting-goats memes. Flirty, supportive, or sarcastic—this emoji can do it all, horns first.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a full-body, left-facing profile with a cream-gray coat, tan curved horns, a tiny goatee, dark hooves, and a short tail. The vibe is mild and unbothered—more chill farm royalty than a raging ram. Clean shading and soft highlights lend a friendly, almost storybook look.
The goat emoji pulls double duty as both barnyard pal and standing ovation in one tiny icon. Literally, it’s the horned, bearded climber of rocky hills; figuratively, it’s the GOAT—Greatest of All Time—used to crown legends after clutch plays, chart-topping drops, or grandma’s undefeated cookies. It can hype someone up (“you’re the GOAT fr”) or wink with irony after a fail (“nice spill, GOAT”). You’ll also see it for stubborn streaks, scrappy determination, and that never-quit mountain-goat energy.
A goat is a mammal that is closely related to a sheep and is frequently used as livestock (animals that are raised by people for the goods they produce). Goats are known for eating just about anything and are often used to clear out large areas of plants that people want to remove, such as blackberry plants. Goats are also very good jumpers and are often observed standing on top of objects (rocks, chairs, tree stumps). A Billy goat is a male goat that is still capable of reproducing (intact or not castrated). A baby goat is called a "kid." This emoji is silly, potentially foolish, stubborn and can smell bad.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 307 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 | :goat: |
| Keywords | Goat, Sheep, Kid, Billy, Livestock |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
Goat cheese, some people love it, others not so much.
| 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) | 1f410 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F410 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128016 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x90 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 90 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 220 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC10 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc10 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56336 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F410 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F410 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128016 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F410" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\x90" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC10" |
