Horse face Emoji

Animals

A cartoon-style depiction of a brown horse’s head facing left, featuring a white patch on its snout, a dark brown mane, and upright ears.

Usage Context

Used to discuss horseback riding, equestrian sports, or farm animals in general. It frequently appears alongside 🐎 to represent a full horse or 🤠 to imply a cowboy theme or Western lifestyle.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0. It draws inspiration from the long tradition of animal icons in early Japanese mobile phone sets, which prioritized recognizable creatures for quick text messaging.

Details

Glyph

🐴

Unicode

U+1F434

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f434:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC34;

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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