Wiktionary traces barn to Old English bereærn, a compound of bere, barley, and ærn, a dwelling. So the barn emoji here is grain and a house: Sheaf of rice, then House.
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Farm animals, no farm building
CLDR is the word list behind emoji search. It files farm under eleven emoji, from Horse face to Ear of corn, and none is a building. Ranch leads to House and House with garden, shelter to Hut alone and farming to Basket alone.
Red barn, cow barn, horse barn
Barn red paint with white trim is common on barns in the northern United States, by Wikipedia, so Red barn opens with Red square. A byre is a barn for cattle and a stable is a building for horses, by Wiktionary: Cow barn and Horse barn put the animal where the grain was.
Questions and answers
Is there a barn emoji?
Not by that name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, has three emoji with house in the name and none named for a barn, a stable or a shed. 🌾🏠 is the pair on this page.
Can I copy and paste a barn emoji where emoji are refused?
As plain characters, yes. ⌂ is a character Unicode names House, 倉 is granary and 厩 is stable in the Unihan database, and [X|X] is a pair of barn doors in plain ASCII.
Is there a barn door emoji?
No emoji is named for one. The combo Barn door is 🏠🚪, House then Door. By Wiktionary a barn door is also something too large to miss, hence the combo Missed the barn door.
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Closest emoji 23
🌾🏠BarnSheaf of rice, then house.
🧺BasketU+1F9FA. The only emoji filed under farming. Emoji 11.0.
🐈CatU+1F408. Filed under cat and kitten. Emoji 0.7.
🐔ChickenU+1F414. Filed under chicken and bird. Emoji 0.6.
🐄CowU+1F404. Filed under farm and milk. Emoji 1.0.
🏚️Derelict houseU+1F3DA U+FE0F. Filed under derelict and house. Emoji 0.7.
🚪DoorU+1F6AA. The only emoji filed under door. Emoji 0.6.
🌽Ear of cornU+1F33D. Filed under farm and crops. Emoji 0.6.
🐑EweU+1F411. Filed under farm and sheep. Emoji 0.6.
🧑🌾FarmerU+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F33E. Filed under farmer and rancher. Emoji 12.1.
🐐GoatU+1F410. Filed under farm and goat. Emoji 1.0.
🐎HorseU+1F40E. Filed under farm and horse. Emoji 0.6.
🐴Horse faceU+1F434. Filed under farm and horses. Emoji 0.6.
🏠HouseU+1F3E0. Filed under ranch and country. Emoji 0.6.
🏡House with gardenU+1F3E1. Filed under ranch and garden. Emoji 0.6.
🛖HutU+1F6D6. The only emoji filed under shelter. Emoji 13.0.
🦉OwlU+1F989. Filed under owl and bird. Emoji 3.0.
🐖PigU+1F416. Filed under farm and pig. Emoji 1.0.
🟥Red squareU+1F7E5. Filed under red and square. Emoji 12.0.
🐓RoosterU+1F413. Filed under rooster and bird. Emoji 1.0.
🌾Sheaf of riceU+1F33E. One of two emoji filed under grain. Emoji 0.6.
🚜TractorU+1F69C. The only emoji filed under tractor. Emoji 1.0.
🪵WoodU+1FAB5. Filed under timber and lumber. Emoji 13.0.
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Barn kinds 10
🐄🏠Cow barnCow, then house.
🐐🏠Goat barnGoat, then house.
🌾🌾🏠Hay barnSheaf of rice, twice, then house.
🪜🌾HayloftLadder, then sheaf of rice.
🐎🏠Horse barnHorse, then house.
🏚️🌾Old barnDerelict house, then sheaf of rice.
🐖🏠Pig barnPig, then house.
🟥🏠Red barnRed square, then house.
🐑🏠Sheep barnEwe, then house.
🚜🏠Tractor barnTractor, then house.
Barn characters 3
倉Granary, as a Han characterU+5009. Granary, by the Unihan database.
⌂House, plainU+2302. Unicode’s name for it. A roof on a box, and no emoji.
厩Stable, as a Han characterU+53A9. Stable or barnyard, by the Unihan database.
Typed barns 3
(o,o)A barn owl, wide-eyed.
[X|X]Two barn doors, each with a cross brace. Plain ASCII.
/|X|X|\The same doors under a roof slope each side.
Barn drawings 3
Barn and siloSeven lines: a barn with one wide door and a silo at its right.
Barn frontThree lines: a roof, a loft and two braced doors.
Barn with a hayloft doorSeven lines: a gambrel roof, a loft door and two braced doors.
Barn lines 7
barn cat on patrolFor a photo of the cat.
barn dance at ___, boots requiredFor an invitation. Fill in the time.
born in a barn? shut the doorWiktionary’s idiom, for whoever left it open.
chores first, barn dance afterFor a Saturday.
could not hit a barn door todayA barn door, by Wiktionary: something too large to miss.
hay is in. so is the rainFor the day the hayloft is full.
red barn, white trim, blue skyFor a photo of the barn itself.
Barnyard combos 11
🏠🐈Barn catHouse, then cat.
🏠💃🕺Barn danceHouse, then woman dancing, then man dancing.
🏠🚪Barn doorHouse, then door.
🏠🦉Barn owlHouse, then owl.
🔨🪵🏠Barn raisingHammer, then wood, then house.
🏠🐓🐖🐑BarnyardHouse, then rooster, then pig, then ewe.
👶🌾🏠Born in a barnBaby, then sheaf of rice, then house.
🚜🌾🏠Hay deliveryTractor, then sheaf of rice, then house.
🚪🐎💨Horse has boltedDoor, then horse, then dashing away.
🎯🚪❌Missed the barn doorBullseye, then door, then cross mark.
🌄🐓🪣Morning choresSunrise over mountains, then rooster, then bucket.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-10 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named barn: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds barn, barnyard, hayloft, byre, granary, silo, stable or shed, and no emoji name or search word holds hay. Three emoji have house in the name. CLDR files farm under eleven emoji (Horse face, Horse, Cow face, Ox, Cow, Pig face, Pig, Pig nose, Ewe, Goat, Ear of corn), ranch under House and House with garden, shelter under Hut alone, farming under Basket alone, grain under Sheaf of rice and Bread, and door under Door alone. The meanings of the Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). That barn goes back to Old English bereærn, a compound of bere (barley) and ærn (dwelling, barn), and that a barn is a building, often on a farm, for storing things or keeping animals like cattle are from Wiktionary, barn (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barn, CC BY-SA 4.0). That a byre is a barn for cattle, a stable a building for horses, a hayloft a barn's upper storey used for hay and a barnyard the yard round a barn, that a barn door is also something too large to miss, the related saying about the horse that has bolted, the idiom born in a barn, that a barn dance is set step dancing such as square dance, that barn owls are commonly found in barns and that barn red is the colour barns are traditionally painted are from their Wiktionary entries (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/byre, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stable, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hayloft, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barnyard, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barn_door, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/born_in_a_barn, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barn_dance, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barn_owl, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barn_red). That barn red paint with white trim is common on barns in the northern United States, that a barn houses livestock, equipment, fodder and often grain, that large dairy barns commonly have gambrel roofs over the hay loft and that a barn may have a silo are from Wikipedia, Barn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0); what a barn raising is from Wikipedia, Barn raising (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising). The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.