Tiger Emoji

Animals

A full-body side profile of a tiger, depicted standing in a prowling stance. The creature is rendered with characteristic orange and black stripes and a long, curved tail.

Usage Context

Used to represent big cats, wildlife, or the lunar calendar's Year of the Tiger. It is frequently sent to express strength, ferocity, or to denote a sports mascot. It is often paired with the 🐯 tiger face or other jungle animals like 🐘 to flesh out a nature-themed message.

History

The tiger was added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It became part of a major expansion of animal emojis intended to diversify the options available for social media users to describe their personality or interests.

Details

Glyph

🐅

Unicode

U+1F405

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f405:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC05;

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

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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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