The water buffalo emoji shows a dark-coated buffalo with long, curved horns, common across South and Southeast Asian farms. It's used mainly for agricultural and rural-life content in regions where the animal does the plowing and hauling that oxen or horses do elsewhere.
What 🐃 means
The full body of a large water buffalo on all fours, characterized by its all-black skin, long tail, and its low, crescent-shaped horns. This emoji mainly signifies strength and endurance but ironically, can also suggest laziness and even unattractiveness.
Water buffaloes are known for being excellent workers in farms, especially in tilling, and this emoji suggests the level of dedication and obedience that these creatures are forced through.
Different platforms vary in their color scheme and design in their depiction of this emoji. Some even have the water buffalo looking straight ahead.
How and when to use it
- When the conversation literally involves a water buffalo, there's no better emoji than 🐃.
- A lazy person can be depicted using 🐃.
- Water buffaloes are known for their strength to pull carts and in tilling fields. Therefore strength in a person can be metaphorized with this 🐃 emoji.
- If you're faced with strenuous tasks, "The work of a buffalo", this 🐃 emoji fits in well.
- 🐃 can also signify obesity, and can be used to depict that.
Other Names
- 🐃 Buffalo
- 🐃 Yak
- 🐃 Buff
- 🐃 Bull
- 🐃 Bison
- 🐃 Beef
- 🐃 Water Ox
- 🐃 Beast Of Burden
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
- Codepoints
U+1F403- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:water_buffalo:- Keywords
- animal, buffalo, water, zoo
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 — 🐃 Water Buffalo or 🪒 Razor?