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🐑 Sheep
Also known as: Ewe, Lamb
Unicode: U+1F411
Description
A ewe, or female sheep raised for its wool, meat, and milk and without the spiraling horns of a ram. Depicted in full profile on all fours facing left with a thick, white fleece and black, gray, or white skin. Not to be confused with 🐏 Ram, though their applications may overlap. Often considered (in lieu of 🐐 Goat) one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. Apple and Google’s designs previously depicted a ram. Samsung and Facebook’s designs previously featured only a ewe face.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
ewefemalesheep
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :ewe: | |
| GitHub | :sheep: | |
| Slack | :sheep: | |
| Discord | :sheep: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:
A white sheep which is similar in appearance to the ram emoji. May be found on a farm. Sheep was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and http://emojipedia.org/sheep/
Verbs:
- Strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
- To strike against with a heavy impact.
- Strike (something) hard.
- Shear the wool from
- To shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)
- To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
- To shear the fleece.
Nouns:
- The soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep, lamas and other animals and which is used to produce clothing.
- The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
- Soft hair of the fur, especially of the sheep
- Hair of sheep, etc.
- Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.
- A fabric made from the hair of sheep
- Woolen or woollen is a type of yarn made from carded wool.
- A goat is a bovine famous for its ability to forage on plants unpalatable, and in habitats inaccessible, to other browsers.
- Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
- A common four-legged animal (Capra) that is related to sheep and bred by humans for its coat and milk.
- Domesticated mammal raised primarily for its milk
- A female goat.