# 🐃 Water buffalo emoji

🐃 Water buffalo is an emoji in the mammals set of Animals & nature. It was added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Related words: animal and zoo.

- Emoji: 🐃
- Unicode name: water buffalo
- Code points: U+1F403
- Category: Animals & nature, Mammals
- Added: Emoji 1.0 (2015)
- GitHub shortcode: :water_buffalo:
- Keywords: animal, buffalo, water, zoo
- Page: https://emojichart.com/water-buffalo-emoji

## What it means

A large dark animal with long swept-back horns, this water buffalo is raised as a farm animal in many parts of Asia. Messages use it for buffalo, farm and rural scenes, and wildlife.

## How to type 🐃

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “water buffalo”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “water buffalo”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “water buffalo”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “water buffalo”.
- GitHub: Type :water_buffalo: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | búfalo de agua | agua, búfalo, búfalo de agua |
| Français (fr) | buffle | animal, buffle, corne, zoo |
| Deutsch (de) | Wasserbüffel | Büffel, Tier, Wasser, Wasserbüffel |
| Italiano (it) | bufalo d’acqua | animale, animali, animali selvatici, bufalo, bufalo d’acqua |
| Português (pt) | búfalo-asiático | água, animal, búfalo, búfalo-asiático |
| Nederlands (nl) | waterbuffel | buffel, dier, dierentuin, water |
| Svenska (sv) | vattenbuffel | djur, vattenbuffel |
| Polski (pl) | wół domowy | bawół, wół, zwierzę |
| Türkçe (tr) | manda | buffalo, hayvan, manda, su |
| Русский (ru) | буйвол | буйвол, животное, зверь, зоопарк, рога |
| Українська (uk) | буйвіл | буйвіл, тварина |
| Ελληνικά (el) | νεροβούβαλος | βουβάλι, ζώα, ζώο, ζωολογικός κήπος, νερό, νεροβούβαλος |
| العربية (ar) | جاموس مائي | جاموس, جاموس مائي, جاموسة, حديقة الحيوانات, حيوان, فدان |
| עברית (he) | תאו המים | באפלו, בעל חיים, מים, תאו, תאו המים |
| فارسی (fa) | بوفالوی آبی | آب, بوفالو, بوفالوی آبی |
| हिन्दी (hi) | भैंस | जलभैंस, पशु, पानी, भैंस |
| বাংলা (bn) | জলহস্তী | জল, জলহস্তী, পশুপাখি, প্রাণী, মহিষ |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | kerbau | air, binatang, hewan, kerbau |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | trâu nước | động vật, nước, trâu nước, vườn thú |
| ไทย (th) | ควาย | ควาย, สัตว์ |
| 日本語 (ja) | 水牛 | バッファロー, 動物, 水牛, 牛 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 물소 | 동물, 동물원, 물소, 버팔로, 소 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 水牛 | 水牛 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 水牛 | 動物, 水牛, 牛 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): waterbuffel
- Akan (ak): nsuo mu ɛkoͻ
- Albanian (sq): buall indian
- Amharic (am): የውሃ አውራሪስ
- Anii (blo): ʊkó
- Armenian (hy): ջրագոմեշ
- Assamese (as): পানী ম’হ
- Azerbaijani (az): su camışı
- Bashkir (ba): азия буйволы
- Basque (eu): ur-bufaloa
- Belarusian (be): вадзяны буйвал
- Bosnian (bs): bivo
- Breton (br): bual
- Bulgarian (bg): воден бивол
- Burmese (my): ကျွဲ
- Cantonese (yue): 水牛
- Catalan (ca): búfal aquàtic
- Cherokee (chr): ᏯᎾᏏ ᎠᎹ
- Chuvash (cv): буйвол
- Croatian (hr): vodeni bivol
- Czech (cs): buvol domácí
- Danish (da): vandbøffel
- Estonian (et): vesipühvel
- European Portuguese (pt-PT): búfalo
- Faroese (fo): búffil
- Filipino (fil): kalabaw
- Finnish (fi): vesipuhveli
- Galician (gl): búfalo acuático
- Georgian (ka): კამეჩი
- Gujarati (gu): ભેંસ
- Hausa (ha): ɓaunan ruwa
- Hungarian (hu): vízibölény
- Icelandic (is): vatnabuffall
- Igbo (ig): ehi ọhịa mmiri
- Irish (ga): buabhall uisce
- Javanese (jv): kebo
- Kalaallisut (kl): vandbøffel
- Kannada (kn): ನೀರೆಮ್ಮೆ
- Kazakh (kk): енеке
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): ەنەكە
- Khmer (km): ក្របីទឹក
- Kinyarwanda (rw): imbogo yo mu mazi
- Konkani (kok): उदकातली म्हस
- Kyrgyz (ky): азия буйволу
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): Wakax rech ja’
- Lao (lo): ຄວາຍ
- Latvian (lv): bifelis
- Lithuanian (lt): azijinis buivolas
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): wódny buwoł
- Luxembourgish (lb): Waasserbüffel
- Macedonian (mk): бивол
- Malay (ms): kerbau
- Malayalam (ml): പോത്ത്
- Maltese (mt): buflu tal-ilma
- Marathi (mr): पाणम्हैस
- Mongolian (mn): бух
- Māori (mi): pūru wai
- Nepali (ne): अर्ना
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Wọ́ta Búfálo
- Northern Sotho (nso): nare ya ka meetseng
- Norwegian (no): vannbøffel
- Norwegian Nynorsk (nn): vassbøffel
- Odia (or): ଜଳ ମଇଁଷି
- Oromo (om): gafarsa bishaanii
- Pashto (ps): د اوبو مېږه
- Punjabi (pa): ਪਾਣੀ ਵਾਲੀ ਮੱਝ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): پانی دا سنڈا
- Quechua (qu): bufalo yakumanta
- Romanian (ro): bivol
- Romansh (rm): biffel da l’aua
- Sardinian (sc): bùfalu de abba
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): buabhall-uisge
- Serbian (sr): водени биво
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): vodeni bivo
- Shan (shn): ၵႂၢႆး
- Sindhi (sd): پاڻي واري مينهن
- Sinhala (si): දිය මීහරකා
- Slovak (sk): byvol
- Slovenian (sl): vodni bivol
- Somali (so): lo’ gisida biyaha
- Swahili (sw): nyati
- Tajik (tg): говмеши обӣ
- Tamil (ta): நீர் எருமை
- Telugu (te): నీటి గేదె
- Tigrinya (ti): ጎባይ ማይ
- Tongan (to): pafalō
- Tswana (tn): nare ya metsi
- Turkmen (tk): gäwmiş ýüz
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): wódny buwoł
- Urdu (ur): پانی کی بھینس
- Uyghur (ug): سۇ كالىسى
- Uzbek (uz): buyvol
- Welsh (cy): byfflo dwr
- Wolof (wo): nagu ndox
- Xhosa (xh): inyathi yamanzi
- Yoruba (yo): Ẹfọn Omi
- Yoruba (Benin) (yo-BJ): Ɛfɔn Omi
- Zulu (zu): inkomo yehlathi yamanzi

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F403` |
| HTML | `🐃` |
| CSS | `\1F403` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F403}` |
| Python | `\U0001F403` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F 90 83` |
| UTF-16 | `D83D DC03` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%90%83` |

## Questions

### What does the 🐃 water buffalo emoji mean?

A large dark animal with long swept-back horns, this water buffalo is raised as a farm animal in many parts of Asia. Messages use it for buffalo, farm and rural scenes, and wildlife.

### How do I type the 🐃 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “water buffalo”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :water_buffalo:.

### When was the 🐃 emoji added?

🐃 was added in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🐃?

U+1F403. In HTML you can write 🐃, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F403}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/water-buffalo-emoji