🦬Bison Emoji
Generally, the bison emoji just means a bison! It’s used to represent the animal itself.
The 🦬 emoji is a bison.
- Unicode
- U+1F9AC
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :bison:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦬 Bison emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
People also look for it as buffalo emoji.
Bison emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the bison 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.
Bison emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :bison:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9AC.
How to type the 🦬 Bison emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Bison emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the bison 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
Bison emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around bison 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
More than a big shaggy cow, it's the US national mammal and sacred to many Native American nations.
The official national mammal, and sacred to many Native American nations, carrying real cultural weight.
Usually points to the European bison (wisent), a well-known conservation success story.
Before you send it: Fine for wildlife or US-symbol posts; use it thoughtfully in Indigenous-related conversations, not as a random size joke.
What 🦬 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the bison lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🦬 Bison emoji came from
It arrived with the 13.0 release of the standard, which dates the bison to 2020.
Same character every time — U+1F9AC 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.
Bison was approved as U+1F9AC and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.