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
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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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