Question 1

What does the 🐗 boar emoji mean?

Accepted Answer

The boar emoji depicts a wild boar and represents the wild and the Chinese zodiac. It is used for wild pigs, hunting, and the Year of the Pig.

Question 2

Is it the same as a pig?

Accepted Answer

A boar is a wild pig; the pig emoji depicts the farmed, domestic animal.

Question 3

When was this emoji added to Unicode?

Accepted Answer

It was part of the original Unicode 6.0 emoji set, first released in 2010 (Emoji 0.6).

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