Pig face Emoji

Animals

A cartoonish, rounded pink pig face looking straight ahead with a snout, floppy ears, and a neutral expression. It is a simplified take on a domestic pig’s features.

Usage Context

Frequently used to reference farm life, bacon, or the animal itself. It is also used in slang as a playful or derogatory reference to someone being messy or greedy. It is often paired with the pig body emoji or the bacon emoji to drive the point home.

History

Part of the original Japanese mobile carrier sets, this emoji was standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It was designed to help users quickly identify animals in messaging apps, drawing on the long tradition of animal icons in early pixel-based internet communication.

Details

Glyph

🐷

Unicode

U+1F437

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f437:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC37;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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