Horse face

What 🐴 means

A horse's head. It stands for horses and for horse lovers, riders, and stable life.

Riders and fans use it for lessons, barn days, and horse photos, and for jokes about being a horse girl. It also helps with sayings like “hold your horses” or “straight from the horse's mouth,” and with Year of the Horse greetings.

Facts

Horse face 🐴 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :horse: or :horse_face:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “dressage”, “equine”, or “face”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

animals & nature · Unicode 6.0