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 Microsoft
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-mammal
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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