# 🐯 Tiger face emoji

🐯 Tiger face is an emoji in the mammals set of Animals & nature. It was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. Related words: animal, big, cat and predator.

- Emoji: 🐯
- Unicode name: tiger face
- Code points: U+1F42F
- Category: Animals & nature, Mammals
- Added: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- GitHub shortcode: :tiger:
- Keywords: animal, big, cat, face, predator, tiger
- Page: https://emojichart.com/tiger-face-emoji

## What it means

Orange fur and bold black stripes mark this tiger's face. People use it for tigers and big cats, fierceness, power and courage, and sometimes for the tiger of the Chinese zodiac.

## How to type 🐯

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

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | cara de tigre | cara, cara de tigre, tigre |
| Français (fr) | tête de tigre | animal, félin, prédateur, tête de tigre, tigre, visage |
| Deutsch (de) | Tigergesicht | Gesicht, Raubkatze, Tier, Tiger, Tigergesicht |
| Italiano (it) | muso di tigre | animale, animali, faccina, felino, muso di tigre, tigre |
| Português (pt) | rosto de tigre | animal, rosto de tigre, tigre |
| Nederlands (nl) | tijgergezicht | dier, gezicht, groot, kat, roofdier, tijger |
| Svenska (sv) | tigeransikte | djur, tiger, tigeransikte |
| Polski (pl) | głowa tygrysa | buźka, głowa, kot, paski, pyszczek, tygrys, tygrysa, tygrysek, zwierzę |
| Türkçe (tr) | kaplan yüzü | büyük kedi, etobur, hayvan, kaplan, kaplan yüzü, kedigiller, vahşi, yüz |
| Русский (ru) | морда тигра | животное, зверь, морда, тигр, тигренок, тигриная |
| Українська (uk) | морда тигра | морда, морда тигра, тварина, тигр, тигряча морда, хижак |
| Ελληνικά (el) | πρόσωπο τίγρης | ζώο, κυνηγός, μεγάλη γάτα, πρόσωπο, τίγρης |
| العربية (ar) | وجه نمر | حيوان, قط كبير, قطة كبيرة, مفترس, نمر, وجه نمر |
| עברית (he) | פני טיגריס | חמוד, טיגריס, טייגר, פני טיגריס, פנים |
| فارسی (fa) | صورت ببر | ببر, صورت |
| हिन्दी (hi) | शेर का चेहरा | पशु, बाघ, शेर, शेर का चेहरा |
| বাংলা (bn) | বাঘের মুখ | বড় বিড়াল, বাঘ, বাঘের মুখ, মুখ |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | wajah harimau | besar, binatang, harimau, hewan, kucing, macan, muka, predator, wajah |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | mặt hổ | dã thú, động vật, hổ, mặt |
| ไทย (th) | หน้าเสือ | สัตว์, เสือ, หน้าเสือ |
| 日本語 (ja) | トラの顔 | トラ, トラの顔, 動物, 虎, 顔 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 호랑이 얼굴 | 동물, 얼굴, 포식자, 호랑이, 호랑이띠 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 老虎头 | 森林之王, 老虎, 老虎头, 脸 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 老虎頭 | 巧虎, 老虎頭, 虎, 虎面 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): tiergesig
- Akan (ak): sebͻ anim
- Albanian (sq): fytyrë tigri
- Amharic (am): የነብር ፊት
- Anii (blo): atabɩyarɩ ɩsǝnayar agayɛ
- Armenian (hy): վագրի մռութ
- Assamese (as): বাঘৰ মুখ
- Azerbaijani (az): pələng üzü
- Bashkir (ba): юлбарыҫ башы
- Basque (eu): tigre-aurpegia
- Belarusian (be): пыска тыгра
- Bosnian (bs): glava tigra
- Breton (br): penn tigr
- Bulgarian (bg): муцуна на тигър
- Burmese (my): ကျားရုပ်
- Cantonese (yue): 老虎臉
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 老虎脸
- Catalan (ca): cara de tigre
- Cherokee (chr): ᎬᎮ ᎤᎧᏛ
- Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China) (zh-Hant-HK): 老虎樣
- Chuvash (cv): тигр пуҫӗ
- Croatian (hr): lice tigra
- Czech (cs): hlava tygra
- Danish (da): tigerhoved
- Estonian (et): tiigri nägu
- European Portuguese (pt-PT): cara de tigre
- Faroese (fo): tikaraandlit
- Filipino (fil): mukha ng tigre
- Finnish (fi): tiikerin naama
- Galician (gl): cara de tigre
- Georgian (ka): ვეფხვის სახე
- Gujarati (gu): વાઘનો ચહેરો
- Hausa (ha): fuskar damisa mai ratsi-ratsi
- Hungarian (hu): tigrisfej
- Icelandic (is): tígrisdýrshöfuð
- Igbo (ig): ihu taịga
- Irish (ga): aghaidh tíogair
- Javanese (jv): rai macan
- Kalaallisut (kl): tigeransigt
- Kannada (kn): ಹುಲಿ ಮುಖ
- Kazakh (kk): жолбарыстың беті
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): جولبارىستىڭ بەتى
- Khmer (km): មុខខ្លា
- Kinyarwanda (rw): isura y’igisamagwe
- Konkani (kok): वाघाचो चेरो
- Kyrgyz (ky): жолборстун башы
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): Upalaj b’alam
- Lao (lo): ໜ້າເສືອ
- Latvian (lv): tīģera galva
- Lithuanian (lt): tigro snukis
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): woblico tigra
- Luxembourgish (lb): Tigersgesiicht
- Macedonian (mk): глава на тигар
- Malay (ms): muka harimau
- Malayalam (ml): കടുവ മുഖം
- Maltese (mt): wiċċ ta’ tigra
- Marathi (mr): वाघाचा चेहरा
- Mongolian (mn): барын толгой
- Māori (mi): kanohi taika
- Nepali (ne): बाघको अनुहार
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Taíga Fes
- Northern Sotho (nso): sefahlego sa lepogo
- Norwegian (no): tigerfjes
- Odia (or): ବାଘ ମୁହଁ
- Oromo (om): fuula qeerransaa
- Pashto (ps): پړانګ مخ
- Punjabi (pa): ਚੀਤੇ ਦਾ ਚਿਹਰਾ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): چیتے دی شکل
- Quechua (qu): tigre uya
- Romanian (ro): față de tigru
- Romansh (rm): fatscha da tigher
- Sardinian (sc): murru de tigre
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): aodann tìgeir
- Serbian (sr): лице тигра
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): lice tigra
- Shan (shn): ၼႃႈသိူဝ်
- Sindhi (sd): چيتو مهانڊو
- Sinhala (si): කොටි මුහුණ
- Slovak (sk): hlava tigra
- Slovenian (sl): tigrov obraz
- Somali (so): waji shabeel
- Swahili (sw): uso wa chui milia
- Tajik (tg): афти паланг
- Tamil (ta): புலி முகம்
- Telugu (te): పులి ముఖం
- Tigrinya (ti): ገጽ ነብሪ
- Tongan (to): mataʻi-taika
- Tswana (tn): sefatlhego sa nkwe
- Turkmen (tk): gaplaň ýüz
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): hłowa tigra
- Urdu (ur): ٹائیگر کا چہرہ
- Uyghur (ug): يولۋاس چىراي
- Uzbek (uz): yo‘lbars qiyofasi
- Welsh (cy): wyneb teigr
- Wolof (wo): kanamu segg
- Xhosa (xh): ubuso bengwe
- Yoruba (yo): Oju Ẹkùn
- Yoruba (Benin) (yo-BJ): Oju Ɛkùn
- Zulu (zu): ubuso bethayiga

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F42F` |
| HTML | `🐯` |
| CSS | `\1F42F` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F42F}` |
| Python | `\U0001F42F` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F 90 AF` |
| UTF-16 | `D83D DC2F` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%90%AF` |

## Questions

### What does the 🐯 tiger face emoji mean?

Orange fur and bold black stripes mark this tiger's face. People use it for tigers and big cats, fierceness, power and courage, and sometimes for the tiger of the Chinese zodiac.

### How do I type the 🐯 emoji?

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

### When was the 🐯 emoji added?

🐯 was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010.

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

U+1F42F. In HTML you can write 🐯, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F42F}.

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