🐷Pig Face Emoji
Generally, it just means a pig. People use it to add a bit of fun or animal-related imagery to their messages.
The 🐷 emoji represents a pig.
- Unicode
- U+1F437
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :pig:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐷 Pig Face emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as bacon emoji.
Pig Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F437. 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.
Pig Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :pig:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F437.
How to type the 🐷 Pig Face emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Pig Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the pig face 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
Pig Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pig 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
Reads as an affectionate self-deprecating joke in some places and a serious religious insult in others.
pigs are considered unclean in Islam, so calling someone a pig is a genuine, harsh insult
used self-deprecatingly or fondly for someone lazy or food-loving, often affectionate
pork is non-kosher, so the animal carries a similar unclean connotation
Before you send it: Don't use it to describe a person's appetite or weight outside contexts where you know it reads as a joke.
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: Pig Face
Code: U+1F437 · added 2010
Shortcode: :pig:
Generally, it just means a pig.
Unicode name: Pig Nose
Code: U+1F43D · added 2010
Shortcode: :pig_nose:
Generally, it just means “pig” or “snout.
Where the 🐷 Pig 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+1F437 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 E755, KDDI au E4DE, SoftBank E10B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Pig Face was approved as U+1F437 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.