🐗Boar Emoji
Generally, the boar emoji means a literal wild pig. People use it to represent strength, aggression, or a tough attitude.
The 🐗 emoji represents a wild boar.
- Unicode
- U+1F417
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :boar:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐗 Boar emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Boar emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the boar as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Boar 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 :boar:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the boar, code point U+1F417.
How to type the 🐗 Boar emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F417 when there is no key at all.
Boar 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
Boar emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around boar 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🐗 means in other countries
Reads as wild, reckless energy almost everywhere, tied to the same zodiac slot as the pig in Japan.
Boar takes the pig’s place in the zodiac, and ‘charging like a boar’ means reckless focus.
Sometimes used interchangeably with pig imagery for the zodiac year.
Before you send it: Good for jokes about barreling into something headfirst; no real risk in any market.
What 🐗 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the boar lands changes how it is taken.
🐗 vs 🛹 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Boar
Code: U+1F417 · added 2010
Shortcode: :boar:
Generally, the boar emoji means a literal wild pig.
Unicode name: Skateboard
Code: U+1F6F9 · added 2018
Shortcode: :skateboard:
Generally, the 🛹 emoji means skateboarding.
Where the 🐗 Boar 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+1F417 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 EB24, SoftBank E52F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Boar was approved as U+1F417 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.