Cow Emoji

Animals

A side-profile depiction of a white cow with black spots, standing on all fours and facing left. The illustration focuses on the recognizable bovine silhouette typical of livestock found on farms.

Usage Context

Used to represent dairy farming, beef production, or rural life. It is frequently sent in conversations about food, farm animals, or by city dwellers referencing a trip to the countryside. It is often grouped with the 🥛 or 🌱 emojis to complete a pastoral theme.

History

The cow was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial push to include common agricultural animals in the emoji set, reflecting the widespread influence of Japanese telecom providers that aimed to broaden the range of nature-themed pictograms available to users.

Details

Glyph

🐄

Unicode

U+1F404

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f404:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC04;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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