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🐃Water Buffalo Emoji
The water buffalo emoji 🐃 carries the codepoint U+1F403 and has been in the standard since Emoji 1.0 (2015). It belongs to Animals & Nature → Mammals.
What 🐃 water buffalo means
Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
Unicode tags this one animal, buffalo and water and files it under Animals & Nature → Mammals.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F403 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐃 | |
| HTML decimal | 🐃 | |
| CSS | \1F403 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F403} | |
| Python | \U0001F403 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC03 | |
| Rust | \u{1f403} | |
| Swift | \u{1F403} | |
| PHP | \u{1F403} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%83 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 83 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC03 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Qgw== | |
| Decimal | 128003 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🐃
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “water buffalo”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f403and Enter. - HTML — paste
🐃.
How 🐃 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🐃Apple
- 🐃Segoe
- 🐃Noto
- 🐃System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🐃 water buffalo emoji mean?+
🐃 is the water buffalo emoji, tagged animal, buffalo and water. Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🐃?+
water buffalo is U+1F403. In HTML that is 🐃, in CSS \1F403, and in JavaScript \u{1F403}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐃 emoji added?+
water buffalo got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Mammals in Animals & Nature.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐃 water buffalo.