🐖 Pig
A pig, a plump animal farmed for its meat, such as bacon. Depicted in light pink in full profile on all fours facing left, with a long snout and short, curly tail. May be used to represent the animal, its food products, or various metaphorical senses of pig. One of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac; 2019 is the Year of the Pig. See also 🐷 Pig Face, 🐽 Pig Nose, and 🐗 Boar. WhatsApp’s design previously featured a wide grin.
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🐖 Pig
Also known as: Sow, Hog
Unicode: U+1F416
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
pigsow
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :pig: | |
| GitHub | :pig2: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:
A domestic pig, whose ancestor is the wild boar. This farm animal has been created in a photorealistic style in Apple’s artwork, and cartoon http://emojipedia.org/pig/
Verbs:
- Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs
Nouns:
- Sus scrofa domestica or Sus domestica
- Domesticated food animal
- An adult female hog
- The domestic pig, often called swine or hog, is a large, even-toed ungulate; it is variously considered a subspecies of the wild boar, or a distinct species.
- An adult female pig.
- A female pig.
- Cured meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig.
- Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
- Bacon is a meat product prepared from a pig and usually cured.
- Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig.
- The flesh of the back and sides of a pig, salted and dried, used as food.
- Cured meat from a pig