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Boar Emoji 🐗

Tusks and a bristly hide separate the boar emoji from its pink, farm-raised cousin the pig-face. It stands for the wild, untamed version of the animal, and for calling someone tough, aggressive, or hard to back down.

What 🐗 means

The typical face of a wild boar with its signature tusks sticking out of its long snout on its pig-like face, but in a brownish shade. It's also characterized by its pointed ears and scruffy hair on the top of its head.

This emoji suggests a sense of wild and uncivilized. Also, strength and danger. However, the 🐗 emoji is commonly used in a condescending manner and not representing any impressive qualities a boar might possess.

Various platforms vary in their depiction of this emoji. Some even show the full body of the boar.

How and when to use it

Firstly, when the conversation literally involves boars, or even pigs, using 🐗 works fine.
🐗 can be used when talking about pork and pork products.
Someone behaving uncivilized and undisciplined can be represented through 🐗.
🐗 also signifies a sense of wild dangerousness and can be used to denote that emotion or quality.
A person's appearance can be derogatorily compared to a wild boar using 🐗.

Other Names

🐗 Wild Boar
🐗 Warthog
🐗 Wild Pig
🐗 Common Wild Pig
🐗 Wild Swine
🐗 Pumba
🐗 Swine
🐗 Sow
🐗 Oink
🐗 Hog
🐗 Shoat

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
Codepoints: U+1F417
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :boar:
Keywords: animal, boar, pig

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.