Cowboy Hat Face Emoji
A grin under a cowboy hat, used for bravado, country themes and cheerful nonsense.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Cowboy Hat Face emoji mean?
A grin under a cowboy hat, used for bravado, country themes and cheerful nonsense.
Cheerful bravado. It is rarely about actual cowboys and is mostly used to give a message a bit of swagger it has not earned.
How to use 🤠 naturally
Playful confidence, western references and captions that need a bit of swagger.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🤠
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Cowboy Hat Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A wide-brimmed hat on an ordinary grinning face. The hat does everything; the expression beneath it is the plain smile.
- Today
How its use evolved
Playful confidence, western references and captions that need a bit of swagger.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🤠 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Back in the saddle Monday 🤠
Making this decision entirely on instinct 🤠
Yeehaw, the report is finished 🤠
When to use it
Using 🤠 clearly
Playful confidence, western references and captions that need a bit of swagger. It lands as cowboy hat face or 🤠 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the cowboy hat face emoji
What does 🤠 mean in a text message?
A grin under a cowboy hat, used for bravado, country themes and cheerful nonsense. Cheerful bravado. It is rarely about actual cowboys and is mostly used to give a message a bit of swagger it has not earned.
Is 🤠 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are cowboy hat face, 🤠 meaning, cowboy emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤠 look different on another device?
U+1F920 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the cowboy hat face emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🤠 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the cowboy hat face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤠 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🤠 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F920 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🤠 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤠 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F920 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F920} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%A0 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F920
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- cowboy hat face🤠 meaningcowboy emoji
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