🤠 is “yeehaw” and playful confidence, usually with a wink. Copy it here.
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What the cowboy emoji means
🤠 (cowboy hat face, Emoji 5.0) is a smiley in a hat and it means “yeehaw”: playful confidence, Western and country themes, and, since the country-music revival, a fair amount of irony. It is a fixture of rodeo and festival posts, Texas and Nashville trips, and the “howdy” greeting. It has no skin tones; it is a yellow face.
Unicode name: cowboy hat face · U+1F920 · Emoji 3.0 (2016) · group: Smileys & Emotion.
Playful, confident, “yeehaw” — often with a wink. It is not a serious cowboy reference.
Is there a cowboy without the face?
No. 🤠 is the only cowboy emoji; add 🐴 🌵 🔫 for the scene.
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