🐐 Goat

🐐 Goat is one of the mammals in Unicode's Animals & Nature group. It usually appears in messages about animal, capricorn, farm and milk. Further official keywords are zodiac.

One caveat: 🐐 has a well-established second meaning in online slang. Read it in context rather than at face value – the double meaning overview has the details.

You can drop 🐐 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. The character has been part of the standard since 2015 (Emoji 1.0). Its code point is U+1F410.

• 🐐 on its own already flags the topic: animal.
• Fits messages about animal, capricorn, farm and milk.
• Often seen near 🐏 Ram, 🐑 Ewe and 🐪 Camel.

The goat owes its current popularity to an acronym: G.O.A.T., the Greatest Of All Time. The phrase comes out of sport – Muhammad Ali called himself that, and his company was G.O.A.T. Inc. – and since around 2015 the emoji has served online as the highest praise for athletes, musicians or colleagues.

The pun does not survive translation, yet the emoji is used the same way in other languages anyway. In parts of the Middle East and North Africa, meanwhile, calling someone a goat is an insult.

• 🐐🦣 – Goat and Mammoth
• 🐐🐏 – Goat with Ram
• 🐐🐘 – Goat plus Elephant
• 🐐🐑 – Goat and Ewe
• 🐐🐽 – Goat with Pig Nose
• 🐐🐗 – Goat plus Boar
• 🐐🐷 – Goat and Pig Face
• 🐐🐪 – Goat with Camel

Easy to mix up with 🐏 Ram, 🐑 Ewe or 🐪 Camel. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.