The cowboy is Cowboy hat face, U+1F920: one tap copies it. Cowboy hat emoji copy and paste ends here too, because Unicode has no cowboy hat without a face. Of the other 58, ten are filed under hat.
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Search for the stand-in
Search reads Unicode names and CLDR search words, so rancher finds Farmer and rope finds Knot. No emoji is filed under howdy, yeehaw, rodeo, lasso or sheriff, so those searches land on our combos. Pick a skin tone under More options and the hard hats, Farmer and Horse racing follow it.
What arrives at the other end
Knot and Bison date from Emoji 13.0 and Beans from 14.0, and a device with older fonts shows an empty box. <):) and the lasso are plain ASCII and arrive anywhere text does. The text hat uses two macrons, which Unicode notes do not join, so the crown may show a gap. สแดแดสแดแดก and ๐๐๐๐๐ are not plain letters, and screen readers handle them badly.
Tips
Only Horse racing has a rider on a horse, and CLDR's word is jockey. For a mounted cowboy, send Yeehaw.
For a lucky horseshoe, copy ฦฑ. Unicode describes it as a turned capital omega, so its opening points up.
Questions and answers
Is there a cowboy hat emoji without the face?
No. The only emoji with cowboy in its name is Cowboy hat face, formally Face with cowboy hat. The hats that stand alone are Woman's hat, Top hat, Billed cap, Graduation cap and Rescue worker's helmet. For a bare cowboy hat, copy the text _/ยฏยฏ\_.
Is there a cowgirl emoji?
Not a separate one. CLDR gives Cowboy hat face four search words, cowboy, cowgirl, face and hat, so one character answers to both. It has no man or woman form and takes no skin tone: no emoji in Unicode's face subgroups does.
Is there a sheriff emoji?
No. CLDR files no emoji under sheriff, and the only one under badge is Name badge. Sheriff in town stands a Star after Cowboy hat face, and the badge stars โช, โฏ and โ are text symbols, not emoji.
๐งขBilled capU+1F9E2. Filed under hat, baseball and dad. Emoji 5.0.
๐ทConstruction workerU+1F477. Filed under hat and hardhat. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
๐ค Cowboy hat faceU+1F920. Four search words in CLDR: cowboy, cowgirl, face, hat. No other emoji is filed under the first two. Emoji 3.0.
๐Graduation capU+1F393. Filed under hat, cap and scholar. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.6.
๐ทโโ๏ธMan construction workerU+1F477 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The same hard hat, filed under hat again. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 4.0.
๐ฅณPartying faceU+1F973. The other face in a hat. CLDR files it under hat, birthday and hooray. Emoji 11.0.
๐ฒPerson with skullcapU+1F472. Filed under hat, cap and skullcap. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
โ๏ธRescue workerโs helmetU+26D1 U+FE0F. Filed under hat, helmet and aid. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
๐ฉTop hatU+1F3A9. Filed under hat, fancy, formal and magic. Emoji 0.6.
๐ทโโ๏ธWoman construction workerU+1F477 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The third hard hat under the same word. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 4.0.
๐Womanโs hatU+1F452. A hat with no face under it. CLDR adds garden and party. Emoji 0.6.
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Ranch hands, horses and cattle 11
๐ฆฌBisonU+1F9AC. Filed under buffalo and herd. Emoji 13.0.
๐CowU+1F404. The whole cow, filed under farm, milk and moo. Emoji 1.0.
๐ฎCow faceU+1F42E. The head only, under the same farm, milk and moo. Emoji 0.6.
๐งโ๐พFarmerU+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F33E. Three search words: farmer, gardener, rancher. Only the three farmers are filed under rancher. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 12.1.
๐HorseU+1F40E. The whole horse. CLDR files it under farm, equestrian and racehorse. Emoji 0.6.
๐ดHorse faceU+1F434. The head only. CLDR files it under farm, equine and dressage. Emoji 0.6.
๐Horse racingU+1F3C7. The only rider on a horse, and CLDR calls the rider a jockey. Takes a skin tone. Emoji 1.0.
๐กHouse with gardenU+1F3E1. CLDR files it under ranch and country, beside suburbia. Emoji 0.6.
๐ชขKnotU+1FAA2. The only emoji filed under rope. No emoji is filed under lasso. Emoji 13.0.
๐งฒMagnetU+1F9F2. The only emoji filed under horseshoe, for its shape. Emoji 11.0.
๐OxU+1F402. The nearest thing to a rodeo bull: CLDR files Ox under bull and farm. Emoji 1.0.
Desert, campfire, boots and a guitar 12
๐ชBanjoU+1FA95. Three search words: banjo, music, stringed. Emoji 12.0.
๐ตCactusU+1F335. Filed under desert and drought. Emoji 0.6.
๐๏ธCampingU+1F3D5 U+FE0F. One search word: camping. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
๐๏ธDesertU+1F3DC U+FE0F. One search word: desert. It has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
๐ฆ EagleU+1F985. Filed under bird and eagle. It arrived in the same release as the cowboy. Emoji 3.0.
๐ฅFireU+1F525. Unicode has no campfire, so this is it. Emoji 0.6.
๐ธGuitarU+1F3B8. Four search words: guitar, instrument, music, strat. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฅพHiking bootU+1F97E. The other boot. CLDR files it under brown, camping and outdoors. Emoji 11.0.
๐JeansU+1F456. The only emoji filed under denim. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฆScorpionU+1F982. Four search words: Scorpio, scorpion, Scorpius, zodiac. Desert is not among them. Emoji 1.0.
๐SunsetU+1F307. Filed under dusk and sun, and under building too. Emoji 0.6.
๐ขWomanโs bootU+1F462. One of two emoji filed under boot. CLDR adds dress and shopping. Emoji 0.6.
Text cowboys, hats and shouts 8
<):)Sideways cowboy, as we read it: angle bracket and parenthesis for the hat
<):-)The same cowboy with a nose
_/ยฏยฏ\_A hat with no face: low lines for the brim, two macrons for the crown
สแดแดสแดแดกYeehaw in small capitals: each is a letter of its own, not a change of typeface
โโถโโโบโนWanted, in circled capitals, for the top of a poster
๐๐๐๐๐Howdy in mathematical bold capitals
<):DSideways cowboy, grinning
~~~~~OA lasso, as we build it: five tildes of rope and a capital O for the loop
Badge stars and horseshoes 5
ฦฑLatin capital upsilon, U+01B1: Unicode describes it as a turned omega, so the opening points up
ฮฉGreek capital omega, U+03A9: reads as a horseshoe with the opening down
โ Black star, U+2605: the plain one
โชCircled white star, U+272A: by name a star in a circle, the nearest thing to a badge
โฏPinwheel star, U+272F
Cowboy combos 12
๐๏ธ๐ฅ๐ซCampfire supperCamping, then fire, then beans. Beans arrived in Emoji 14.0, so older devices show the tent and the fire beside an empty box.
๐ค ๐ธ๐ถCountry songCowboy hat face, then guitar, then musical notes. Swap in the banjo for bluegrass.
๐ค ๐ข๐Hat, boots and denimCowboy hat face, then womanโs boot, then jeans. The outfit, top to bottom, out of order.
๐ค โ๏ธ๐ตHigh noonCowboy hat face, then sun, then cactus. Sun overhead, cactus for company.
๐ค ๐HowdyCowboy hat face, then waving hand. CLDR files the wave under hello, hey and hi. Howdy is not on its list. The hand follows the skin tone you pick.
๐ค ๐ชข๐LassoCowboy hat face, then knot, then cow. Knot is the only emoji filed under rope.
๐ค ๐ค๐ค PartnersCowboy hat face, then handshake, then cowboy hat face. Handshake is filed under deal and agreement. It follows the skin tone you pick.
๐ค ๐๐Ride off into the sunsetCowboy hat face, then horse, then sunset. For the end of the story, or of the group chat.
๐ค ๐RodeoCowboy hat face, then ox. Rodeo is not a search word for any emoji. Ox, filed under bull, is the closest.
๐ค โญSheriff in townCowboy hat face, then star. The only emoji filed under badge is Name badge, so a star stands in.
๐ค ๐ซกTip of the hatCowboy hat face, then saluting face. CLDR files the salute under respect, sir and maโam. From Emoji 14.0.
๐ค ๐๐จYeehawCowboy hat face, then horse, then dashing away. Dashing away is filed under fast and go.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 34 emoji, their names, code points, subgroups, skin tones and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, 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, in sentence case. The search words quoted in the notes are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml, main branch). The first group is mechanical: every emoji to which CLDR gives the search word hat, which is 11 emoji with Cowboy hat face first. Only Cowboy hat face is filed under cowboy or cowgirl, and no emoji is a cowboy hat without a face. The script also checks that no emoji is filed under howdy, yeehaw, rodeo, lasso, sheriff, western, saddle, spur or stetson, and that rancher, rope, horseshoe, denim and boot lead only to the emoji named here. The formal name Face with cowboy hat is from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). The notes on U+01B1 (typographically a turned capital omega) and U+00AF (adjacent macrons do not join) are from NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). Text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). The other emoji, the 8 text items, the 5 badge and horseshoe characters and the 12 combos are this site's own choice. The sideways cowboys, the text hat and the lasso are our own constructions and readings, not taken from a published list, and the combo names are our own. Every character in a text item was checked against UnicodeData.txt. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are ours; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; every source is credited in source)