🐃 Water Buffalo

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.

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🐃 Water Buffalo

Also known as: Buffalo, Domestic Water Buffalo

Unicode: U+1F403

Image Variants

Water Buffalo 3D

3D

Water Buffalo Color

Color

Water Buffalo Flat

Flat

Water Buffalo High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0

Keywords

buffalowater

Shortcodes

PlatformShortcodeAction
Emojipedia: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.