🐎Horse Emoji
Generally, the horse emoji means a horse. People use it to express excitement, speed, or a feeling of being wild and free.
The 🐎 emoji represents a horse.
- Unicode
- U+1F40E
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :racehorse:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐎 Horse emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Horse emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F40E. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Horse 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 :racehorse:.
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+1F40E.
How to type the 🐎 Horse emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F40E when there is no key at all.
Horse 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
Horse emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around horse 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
Reads positively almost everywhere, from a zodiac symbol of freedom to a couple of playful English idioms.
A zodiac sign associated with energy and freedom, a positive reference.
“Horsing around” means playful misbehavior, and a “one-horse town” means a small, dull place.
Before you send it: Reads well in most contexts; the only edge is “one-horse town” sounding dismissive about someone's hometown.
What 🐎 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F40E, 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: Horse
Code: U+1F40E · added 2010
Shortcode: :racehorse:
Generally, the horse emoji means a horse.
Unicode name: Horse Face
Code: U+1F434 · added 2010
Shortcode: :horse:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🐴 emoji, they’re reacting to something surprising or shocking.
Where the 🐎 Horse emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F40E 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐎 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E754, KDDI au E4D8, SoftBank E134.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Horse was approved as U+1F40E and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.