🐃Water Buffalo Emoji
Generally, the 🐃 emoji is used to show support or agreement with something tough or difficult. People use it when they're saying something needs a lot of work or when they admire someone's resilience.
The 🐃 emoji represents a water buffalo.
- Unicode
- U+1F403
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :water_buffalo:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐃 Water Buffalo emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
Water Buffalo emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F403 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your water buffalo looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Water Buffalo emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :water_buffalo:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the water buffalo, code point U+1F403.
How to type the 🐃 Water Buffalo emoji
No picker to hand? The water buffalo can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Water Buffalo emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Water Buffalo emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around water buffalo for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐃, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐃 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🐃 means in other countries
A genuine working animal in South and Southeast Asian daily life, referenced with respect rather than as a joke.
The carabao is a national symbol of hard work and rural life, referenced with respect.
A common working and dairy animal, part of everyday agricultural life.
Before you send it: Reads as a genuine rural or farming reference; no slang meaning to worry about.
What 🐃 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🐃 vs 🌊 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Water Buffalo
Code: U+1F403 · added 2015
Shortcode: :water_buffalo:
Generally, the 🐃 emoji is used to show support or agreement with something tough or difficult.
Unicode name: Water Wave
Code: U+1F30A · added 2010
Shortcode: :ocean:
Generally, 🌊 means water or waves.
Where the 🐃 Water Buffalo emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the water buffalo to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F403 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Water Buffalo was approved as U+1F403 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐃 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.