🐴Horse Face Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🐴 emoji, they’re reacting to something surprising or shocking. It’s a visual way of saying “Wow!
The 🐴 emoji is a horse face.
- Unicode
- U+1F434
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :horse:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐴 Horse Face emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
People also look for it as horse emoji.
Horse Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F434 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your horse face 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.
Horse Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :horse:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the horse face, code point U+1F434.
How to type the 🐴 Horse Face emoji
No picker to hand? The horse face can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Horse Face 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 Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around horse face 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 steady, positive symbol of hard work and freedom, with almost no negative reading anywhere it’s used.
Zodiac sign tied to energy, endurance, travel, and steady hard work.
Casual shorthand for horses, riding, or just liking the animal.
Before you send it: No caution needed; it stays neutral to positive across nearly every context and audience.
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: Horse Face
Code: U+1F434 · added 2010
Shortcode: :horse:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🐴 emoji, they’re reacting to something surprising or shocking.
Unicode name: Horse
Code: U+1F40E · added 2010
Shortcode: :racehorse:
Generally, the horse emoji means a horse.
Where the 🐴 Horse Face 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+1F434 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 E01A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Horse Face was approved as U+1F434 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.