U+1F411 "🐑" Sheep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F411 "🐑" Sheep is a pictographic representation of a domesticated woolly animal, commonly associated with pastoral life, agriculture, and softness. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, serving as a standard digital symbol for the animal in text and communication. The emoji often conveys meanings of gentleness, conformity, or counting sheep to represent sleep, and is distinct from the goat emoji by its fluffy coat and lack of horns. As a visual icon, it is used across platforms to reference farming, livestock, and idioms like being a follower or flock mentality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F411 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Sheep |
| 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 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F411 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc11 |