Ewe Emoji
Animals
A side-profile illustration of a fluffy, white sheep with a cream-colored face and small ears. It looks like a standard farm animal found in grazing pastures.
Usage Context
Used to talk about livestock, farming, or the production of wool. In internet culture, the term 'ship it'—a common phrase in software development for approving code changes—is often represented by this emoji because of the phonetic similarity to the word 'sheep'. It is frequently used alongside 🐑 or 🐏 when discussing agricultural life or creating puns.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial wave of emoji standardization. Its inclusion was driven by the need to represent domestic animals commonly found in global agriculture and rural settings, moving beyond basic pet icons to include broader farm life.
Details
Glyph
🐑
Unicode
U+1F411
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f411:
HTML Entity
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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
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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