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

&#xD83D;&#xDC11;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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