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🐃 Water buffalo

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🐃 Emoji meaning

Hang in there! Down-to-earth attitude, perseverance, and toughness.

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🐃 Meaning

The buffalo stands for stability and endurance and is a symbol of male sexuality and strength. In Asian countries kept as pack animal and for the plowing of rice fields. It appears in myths and legends, rescues Mowgli from the Tiger Shere Khan in the Jungle Book and is one of the 12 zodiac signs.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Water buffalo

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Ox vs water buffalo; both large bovines, horns and body shape differences are small.

Water buffalo

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Water buffalo vs cow face; all bovine emojis can be used for generic cows/oxen.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Water buffalo” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal + zoo

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- water buffalo

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ water buffalo

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ buffalo + water

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

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- buffalo

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