Animals & Nature · Emoji 0.6
🐑Ewe Emoji
Generally, the 🐑 emoji just means “sheep.” People use it to add a cute or pastoral feel to their messages.
The 🐑 emoji represents a sheep.
- Unicode
- U+1F411
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :sheep:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🐑 Ewe emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
People also look for it as female emoji.
02 — Platforms
Ewe emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the ewe has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Ewe emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :sheep:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F411.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🐑 Ewe emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F411 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Ewe 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Ewe emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ewe for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🐑 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 🐑 means in other countries
A gentle farm animal on its own, but “sheep” or “sheeple” is a common put-down for blindly following the crowd.
Calling someone “sheep” or part of the “sheeple” means they follow the crowd without thinking, a put-down.
Plain, respected reference to wool and livestock work.
In Christian and Islamic tradition sheep symbolize a flock guided by a shepherd, a gentler meaning.
Before you send it: Fine for farm talk or faith content; skip it as a reply to someone's opinion since it can read as calling them a follower.
09 — Apps
What 🐑 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F411, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🐑 vs 🫵 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Ewe
Code: U+1F411 · added 2010
Shortcode: :sheep:
Generally, the 🐑 emoji just means “sheep.”
Unicode name: Index Pointing at the Viewer
Code: U+1FAF5 · added 2021
Shortcode: :index_pointing_at_the_viewer:
Generally, it means “you” in a critical or pointing way.
12 — History
Where the 🐑 Ewe 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+1F411 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
KDDI au E48F, SoftBank E529.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Ewe was approved as U+1F411 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.
13 — FAQ