# 🐅 Tiger emoji

🐅 Tiger is an emoji in the mammals set of Animals & nature. It was added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Related words: animal, big, cat, predator and zoo.

- Emoji: 🐅
- Unicode name: tiger
- Code points: U+1F405
- Category: Animals & nature, Mammals
- Added: Emoji 1.0 (2015)
- GitHub shortcode: :tiger2:
- Keywords: animal, big, cat, predator, tiger, zoo
- Page: https://emojichart.com/tiger-emoji

## What it means

Striped and powerful, this full-bodied tiger is shown in profile. People use it for tigers, zoo and safari scenes, strength and fierceness, and sometimes for the Chinese zodiac tiger.

## How to type 🐅

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “tiger”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “tiger”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “tiger”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “tiger”.
- GitHub: Type :tiger2: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | tigre | felino, tigre |
| Français (fr) | tigre | animal, félin, prédateur, tigre, tigresse, zoo |
| Deutsch (de) | Tiger | Tier, Tiger |
| Italiano (it) | tigre | animale, animali, felino, predatore, tigre |
| Português (pt) | tigre | animal, tigre |
| Nederlands (nl) | tijger | dier, dierentuin, groot, kat, roofdier, tijger |
| Svenska (sv) | tiger | djur, tiger |
| Polski (pl) | tygrys | paski, tygrys, tygrysek, zwierzę |
| Türkçe (tr) | kaplan | büyük kedi, etobur, hayvanat bahçesi, kaplan, kedigiller, vahşi |
| Русский (ru) | тигр | животное, зверь, зоопарк, кошка, тигр, хищник |
| Українська (uk) | тигр | тварина, тигр, хижак |
| Ελληνικά (el) | τίγρη | ζώα, ζώο, ζωολογικός κήπος, μεγάλη γάτα, τίγρη, τίγρης |
| العربية (ar) | نمر | حديقة الحيوانات, حيوان, قط كبير, مفترس, نمر |
| עברית (he) | טיגריס | בעל חיים, טורף, טיגריס, טייגר, יונק |
| فارسی (fa) | ببر | ببر |
| हिन्दी (hi) | शेर | पशु, बाघ, शेर |
| বাংলা (bn) | বাঘ | পশুপাখি, বাঘ |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | harimau | besar, binatang, harimau, hewan, kebun binatang, kucing, macan, predator |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | hổ | dã thú, động vật, hổ, sở thú |
| ไทย (th) | เสือ | สัตว์, เสือ |
| 日本語 (ja) | トラ | タイガー, トラ, 動物, 肉食動物, 虎 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 호랑이 | 동물, 동물원, 큰 고양이과 동물, 타이거, 포식자, 호랑이 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 老虎 | 动物园, 老虎, 虎 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 老虎 | 動物, 掠食動物, 老虎, 虎 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): tier
- Akan (ak): sebͻ
- Albanian (sq): tigër
- Amharic (am): ነብር
- Anii (blo): atabɩyarɩ ɩsǝnayar
- Armenian (hy): վագր
- Assamese (as): বাঘ
- Azerbaijani (az): pələng
- Bashkir (ba): юлбарыҫ
- Basque (eu): tigrea
- Belarusian (be): тыгр
- Bosnian (bs): tigar
- Breton (br): tigr
- Bulgarian (bg): тигър
- Burmese (my): ကျား
- Cantonese (yue): 老虎
- Catalan (ca): tigre
- Cherokee (chr): ᎬᎮ
- Chuvash (cv): тигр
- Croatian (hr): tigar
- Czech (cs): tygr
- Danish (da): tiger
- Estonian (et): tiiger
- Faroese (fo): tikari
- Filipino (fil): tigre
- Finnish (fi): tiikeri
- Galician (gl): tigre
- Georgian (ka): ვეფხვი
- Gujarati (gu): વાઘ
- Hausa (ha): damisa mai ratsi-ratsi
- Hungarian (hu): tigris
- Icelandic (is): tígrisdýr
- Igbo (ig): taịga
- Irish (ga): tíogar
- Javanese (jv): macan
- Kalaallisut (kl): tiger
- Kannada (kn): ಹುಲಿ
- Kazakh (kk): жолбарыс
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): جولبارىس
- Khmer (km): ខ្លា
- Kinyarwanda (rw): igisamagwe
- Konkani (kok): वाघ
- Kyrgyz (ky): жолборс
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): B’alam
- Lao (lo): ເສືອ
- Latvian (lv): tīģeris
- Lithuanian (lt): tigras
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): tiger
- Luxembourgish (lb): Tiger
- Macedonian (mk): тигар
- Malay (ms): harimau
- Malayalam (ml): കടുവ
- Maltese (mt): tigra
- Marathi (mr): वाघ
- Mongolian (mn): бар
- Māori (mi): taika
- Nepali (ne): बाघ
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Taíga
- Northern Sotho (nso): lepogo
- Norwegian (no): tiger
- Odia (or): ବାଘ
- Oromo (om): qeerransa
- Pashto (ps): پړانګ
- Punjabi (pa): ਚੀਤਾ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): چیتا
- Quechua (qu): tigre
- Romanian (ro): tigru
- Romansh (rm): tigher
- Sardinian (sc): tigre
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): tìgear
- Serbian (sr): тигар
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): tigar
- Shan (shn): သိူဝ်
- Sindhi (sd): چيتو
- Sinhala (si): කොටියා
- Slovak (sk): tiger
- Slovenian (sl): tiger
- Somali (so): shabeel
- Swahili (sw): chui mkubwa mwenye milia
- Tajik (tg): паланг
- Tamil (ta): புலி
- Telugu (te): పులి
- Tigrinya (ti): ነብሪ
- Tongan (to): taika
- Tswana (tn): nkwe
- Turkmen (tk): gaplaň
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): tiger
- Urdu (ur): ٹائیگر
- Uyghur (ug): يولۋاس
- Uzbek (uz): yo‘lbars
- Welsh (cy): teigr
- Wolof (wo): segg
- Xhosa (xh): ingwe
- Yoruba (yo): Ẹkùn
- Yoruba (Benin) (yo-BJ): Ɛkùn
- Zulu (zu): ithayiga

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F405` |
| HTML | `🐅` |
| CSS | `\1F405` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F405}` |
| Python | `\U0001F405` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F 90 85` |
| UTF-16 | `D83D DC05` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%90%85` |

## Questions

### What does the 🐅 tiger emoji mean?

Striped and powerful, this full-bodied tiger is shown in profile. People use it for tigers, zoo and safari scenes, strength and fierceness, and sometimes for the Chinese zodiac tiger.

### How do I type the 🐅 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “tiger”. 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 :tiger2:.

### When was the 🐅 emoji added?

🐅 was added in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015.

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

U+1F405. In HTML you can write 🐅, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F405}.

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