🐴 Horse Face emoji

The Horse Face emoji 🐴  was approved under Unicode 6.0 in 2010. On most major platforms, the emoji resembles a stylized brown horse head facing toward the left. The WhatsApp version faces toward the right. The exact colors of the horse’s hair, mane, and muzzle vary by platform. Platforms use a similar horse face in their designs for the Unicorn Face emoji 🦄..

Horses are common and popular animals, so the Horse Face emoji 🐴  is used frequently every day on social media. Besides referring to actual horses, the emoji is used in horse-based wordplay such as the phrases to horse around and horseplay. The emoji is also used to refer to rocking horses, hobby horses, and merry-go-rounds (which often feature plastic horses).

The Horse Face emoji 🐴  is also occasionally used to refer to the derogatory term horse face used to describe a person with an elongated face.