🐄Cow Emoji
Generally, the 🐄 emoji just means “cow”. People use it to represent cows, farms, or anything related to that.
The 🐄 emoji represents a cow.
- Unicode
- U+1F404
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :cow2:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐄 Cow emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
Cow emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the cow has been drawn in 3 ways.
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.
Cow 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 :cow2:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F404.
How to type the 🐄 Cow emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F404 when there is no key at all.
Cow emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cow as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Cow emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cow 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
Who sent the cow and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐄 means in other countries
Sacred and protected in India, yet a common gendered insult in British slang, making it one of the wider gaps here.
Sacred in Hinduism and legally protected in many states, treated with real reverence, not a joke.
Calling a woman a “cow” is an established insult for being unpleasant or annoying.
Neutral, everyday reference to dairy and agriculture.
Before you send it: Skip it as a jab at someone; the same emoji is sacred in one culture and a gendered insult in another.
What 🐄 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F404, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🐄 vs 🤠 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Cow
Code: U+1F404 · added 2015
Shortcode: :cow2:
Generally, the 🐄 emoji just means “cow”.
Unicode name: Cowboy Hat Face
Code: U+1F920 · added 2016
Shortcode: :face_with_cowboy_hat:
Usually, it just means someone is feeling a little bit playful or wants to seem a bit western.
Where the 🐄 Cow emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F404 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.
Cow was approved as U+1F404 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.