🐗 boar Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the boar Emoji 🐗 Mean?

Wild, bristly, and tusked — the boar emoji shows the rougher cousin of the domesticated pig, in dark brown with visible tusks. It's been in the set since Unicode 6.0 and shows up in posts about hunting, wild game, forest wildlife, and references to mythology and folklore (boars feature heavily in Celtic, Greek, and Japanese traditions). It's also the symbol for one of the years in the East Asian zodiac in some traditions (where pig and boar are sometimes interchangeable).

People use it in chef and hunting content, especially around game meat, and in tabletop gaming or fantasy threads where boars are common creatures. Pair with trees or arrows for hunting context, or use solo for a 'wild' vibe. Hogwarts fans (Gryffindor specifically — Godric Gryffindor's family crest features a boar) sometimes deploy it.

Wild boar populations have exploded in parts of Texas and Europe, so it shows up in agricultural pest discussions too.