Black-and-white patches and a calm gaze — the cow emoji is the full-body version of the cow face. It's used for farm life, dairy products, and milk in general, reached for when the whole animal fits better than just the head.
What 🐄 means
The full body of a cow standing on all fours, facing left, displaying its entire body of white skin with black patches. Also noticeable are its udder, small curled horns, a pink muzzle on its face, shapely ears stick out on either side. And on the opposite end of its body, a long tail.
The 🐄 Cow emoji suggests a sense of innocence and docility, while also hinting at laziness and a big appetite. It also can represent the food products acquired through cows, i.e. dairy.
Different platforms vary in their design of this emoji. Some depict the cow looking straight ahead.
How and when to use it
- If the conversation literally involves a cow, there's no better emoji than 🐄.
- Even dairy products can be referenced through this 🐄 emoji.
- 🐄 is commonly used to depict obesity or a big appetite in someone.
- This 🐄 emoji can also depict innocence and harmlessness.
- If you want to tell a person that they're being lazy, you can very well use the 🐄 emoji.
Other Names
- 🐄 Bovine
- 🐄 Beef
- 🐄 Moo
- 🐄 Sacred Cow
- 🐄 Holy Cow
- 🐄 Cattle
- 🐄 Dairy
- 🐄 Milk
- 🐄 Calf
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F404- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:cow2:- Keywords
- animal, animals, cow, farm, milk, moo
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🐄 Cow or ✉️ Envelope?
Runs with a crowd
🐄 keeps company in pongal emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.