Orange and black-striped, the tiger face emoji usually wears a friendlier expression than its full-body counterpart. It signals boldness and fierce confidence — the 'eye of the tiger' kind — and shows up in birth-year references for the Year of the Tiger.
What 🐯 means
The large, furry head of a tiger looking straight ahead, characterized by the black stripes on its face, big eyes, curved ears, and long whiskers.
A sense of might and power is signified through 🐯 emoji, along with wildness, danger, and even focus and determination. Keeping aside the real sense of danger about the animal this represents, the 🐯 emoji, through all platforms depicts the tiger face in a more innocuous (only cartoon-ish) and even playful tone through different designs.
How and when to use it
- If the subject matter involves tigers, or cats, or even wildlife in general, 🐯 fits just fine.
- When you want to convey that you're dangerous, albeit in a friendly manner, the face of this ferocious animal 🐯 works.
- The 🐯 emoji can represent a sense of motivation (The eye of the tiger) and can be used to pump someone up.
- 🐯 can even be used to depict a friendly and cuddly tone of mood.
- You can even use this emoji to convey your hunger or appetite.
Other Names
- 🐯 Big Cat
- 🐯 Wild Animal
- 🐯 Wild Cat
- 🐯 Stripes
- 🐯 Wildlife
- 🐯 Cub
- 🐯 Tiger Cub
- 🐯 Feline
- 🐯 Cute Tiger Face
- 🐯 Tiger Cartoon
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F42F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:tiger::tiger_face:Discord- Keywords
- animal, big, cat, face, predator, tiger
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 — 🐯 Tiger Face or 🏋️♀️ Woman Lifting Weights?
Runs with a crowd
🐯 keeps company in animal emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.