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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

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:
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.