The pig-nose emoji is just the snout, two nostrils on a pink oval, a playful stand-in for pigs in general. It's used more for cute or comic effect than for anything literal.
What 🐽 means
Crop a pig down to just its snout and what's left looks more like a costume-shop nose than an actual animal — which is why it usually turns up as a joke rather than as a picture of a pig.
🐽 mainly signifies silliness and being goofy but can also suggest functions of the nose like the sense of smell. The different platforms vary in their designs of this emoji mainly in terms of shape and shade.
How and when to use it
- Anything involving pigs can be represented with 🐽 emoji.
- A playful mood can be brought about through 🐽.
- 🐽 is a way to appear silly and goofy.
- A person being rather annoying can be represented through the 🐽 emoji.
- Pork products can be depicted through 🐽.
- If the subject matter involves a smell, 🐽 complements it well.
Other Names
- 🐽 Pig Snout
- 🐽 Piggy
- 🐽 Pig Face
- 🐽 Piggy Face
- 🐽 Piggy Snout
- 🐽 Nose
- 🐽 Pork
- 🐽 Oink
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F43D- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:pig_nose:- Keywords
- animal, face, farm, nose, pig, smell, snout
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 — 🐽 Pig Nose or 🏌️♀️ Woman Golfing?
Runs with a crowd
🐽 keeps company in pink emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.