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🐃 Water Buffalo
Also known as: Buffalo, Domestic Water Buffalo
Unicode: U+1F403
Description
A water buffalo, a bovine used to plough rice fields in parts of Asia. Depicted in gray or black in full profile on all fours facing left, with a tail and broad horns curled up at the tips. Often used to represent a bull. Not to be confused with 🐂 Ox, though their applications may overlap. Microsoft’s design was previously brown.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
buffalowater
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :water_buffalo: | |
GitHub | :water_buffalo: | |
Slack | :water_buffalo: | |
Discord | :water_buffalo: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:
A Domestic Water Buffalo, used primarily for tilling (ploughing) rice fields in parts of Asia. Water Buffalo was approved as part of Unicode http://emojipedia.org/water-buffalo/
Verbs:
- Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
- Make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
- To make a lowing sound.
Nouns:
- A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
- Tatanka in the Lakota language
- Species of even-toed ungulates
- A wild heavy bison of the species Bison bison, having a broad massive horned head.
- A bovine mammal, a species of bison, Bison bison.
- The American bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds, became nearly extinct by a combination of commercial hunting and slaughter in the 19th century and introduction of bovine diseases from domestic cattle, and has made a recent resurgence largely restricted to a few national parks and reserves.
- Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
- The water buffalo or domestic Asian water buffalo is a large bovid found on the Indian subcontinent to Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia, in Sri Lanka, in the Philippines, and in Borneo.
- An Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
- A large ungulate, widely used as a domestic animal in Asia, South America. North Africa and Europe: .
- A large ungulate, widely used as a domestic animal in Asia.
- Any bovine animal used as a beast of burden.