U+1F403 "🐃" Water Buffalo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐃
U+1F403 "🐃" Water Buffalo is a pictorial representation of a large, dark bovid with curved horns, typically used in digital communication to denote the animal itself, its symbolic associations with strength and labor in agricultural contexts, or its cultural significance in various parts of Asia, such as traditional farming and water buffalo racing. Unlike the similar "🐂" ox emoji, the water buffalo is often depicted with thicker, swept back horns and a more robust body shape, emphasizing its distinct species. This emoji supports diversity in animal representation within text and messaging, allowing users to specify the water buffalo rather than using a generic cow or ox symbol.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F403 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Water Buffalo |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🐃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🐃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F403 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc03 |