🐅 Tiger emoji

The Tiger emoji 🐅 was approved under Unicode 6.0 in 2010. On most major platforms, the emoji depicts a tiger with orange fur and black stripes facing the left. Depending on the platform, the tiger may be depicted realistically or stylized. The WhatsApp version of the emoji has whiskers, and the Twitter version of the emoji has only two visible legs.

Tigers are popular animals that can be found in many of the world’s zoos and animal preserves and are often depicted in popular culture. For this reason, both the Tiger emoji 🐅 and the Tiger Face emoji 🐯 are used to talk about actual tigers, fictional tiger characters such Disney’s Tigger or Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger, or sports teams named after tigers, such as the Clemson Tigers or the Cincinnati Bengals.

Both of these emoji are also used to refer to the Year of the Tiger, one of the 12 years named for animals as part of the 12-year cycle that makes up the Chinese zodiac. The years 2022, 2010, 1998, and 1986 are some examples of years that would be considered to be Years of the Tiger according to the Chinese zodiac.