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 Microsoft

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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