Horse emoji copy and paste means four emoji: Horse face, Horse, Horse racing and Carousel horse. Around them are chess knights that paste as plain text, horse characters, stand-ins for the missing horseshoe, hoofbeats in six languages and 17 combos.
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Four horses, filed in three places
Unicode keeps Horse face and Horse with the animals, Horse racing with people playing sport, and Carousel horse under Travel and Places. Search reads CLDR, Unicode's search word list: dressage finds Horse face alone, jockey finds Horse racing, and horse drops the unicorn, whose only words are face and unicorn.
Which tiles arrive as sent
Three of the four horses carry Emoji 0.6, the lowest label Unicode uses, and Horse racing carries 1.0. Donkey, from Emoji 15.0, is the newest tile and the likeliest to land as an empty box. U U U U, clip clop, wiehiehie and cataclop cataclop are plain ASCII. The Linear B signs, the hieroglyph and the newer chess pieces need a font that has them.
Tips
Only Horse racing takes a skin tone, because only it has a person in it.
β and β are plain text and take the colour of your words: worth trying where a field rejects emoji.
Wild horses copies three at once. For a whole herd, the emoji repeater prints one horse up to 10,000 times.
What is the difference between the two horse emoji?
π΄ is Horse face, U+1F434, the head alone. π is Horse, U+1F40E, the whole animal. CLDR gives Horse face dressage and equine, and gives Horse equestrian, racehorse and racing, so a day at the races wants the second.
Is there a chess knight emoji?
No. The pawn is the only chess piece among the emoji. The knights, β U+265E and β U+2658, are ordinary text characters, so they paste in one colour. Wikipedia notes that Spanish, Italian and Russian all call the piece a horse.
Is 2026 the Year of the Horse?
Yes. Wikipedia's table runs it from 17 February 2026 to 5 February 2027, a Fire Horse year, and starts the next on 4 February 2038. The horse is seventh in the twelve-year cycle and ε is its character. Year of the Horse leads the combos.
π Carousel horseU+1F3A0. Filed under Travel and Places, one entry before the playground slide and two before the ferris wheel. CLDR lists carousel, entertainment and horse. Emoji 0.6.
πHorseU+1F40E. The whole animal. CLDR files this one under equestrian, racehorse and racing. Emoji 0.6.
π΄Horse faceU+1F434. The head only. CLDR files it under dressage and equine, two words the full-body horse does not get. Emoji 0.6.
πHorse racingU+1F3C7. A horse with a jockey on it, which is why Unicode files it with people playing sport and not with the animals. The only tile here that takes a skin tone: the jockey's. Emoji 1.0.
Relatives, a rider and a horseshoe 6
βοΈChess pawnU+265F U+FE0F. The only chess piece that is an emoji. The knight, the piece shaped like a horse, never became one. Emoji 11.0.
π€ Cowboy hat faceU+1F920. The rider, without the horse. Filed under cowboy and cowgirl. Emoji 3.0.
π«DonkeyU+1FACF. The newest of the family. CLDR files it under mule, burro, hinny and stubborn. Emoji 15.0.
π§²MagnetU+1F9F2. Unicode has no horseshoe emoji. This is the only emoji CLDR files under the word horseshoe. Its other words include shape and u. Emoji 11.0.
π¦UnicornU+1F984. A horse with one extra part, but not to CLDR: its only search words are face and unicorn. Emoji 1.0.
π¦ZebraU+1F993. Three search words: animal, stripe and zebra. Emoji 5.0.
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Chess knights and other horse pieces 7
βBlack chess knightU+265E Black chess knight. A horse head as one plain text character. It takes the colour of the words around it and pastes wherever text does.
π¬Knight of spadesU+1F0AC Playing card knight of spades. Unicode gives each suit a knight, between the jack and the queen. Wikipedia describes the card as a man riding a horse, kept by tarot packs and dropped from ordinary French ones.
π¨¨Knight, turned upside downU+1FA28 Black chess turned knight. Unicode calls it a turned knight: the same piece, the other way up. A horse doing a headstand, otherwise.
π¨Neutral chess knightU+1FA04 Neutral chess knight. A third knight, named neutral, from the Chess Symbols block. It came with Unicode 12.0 and shows as an empty box where no font has it.
βWhite chess knightU+2658 White chess knight. The outlined knight. Wikipedia records that the piece is called horse in several languages, caballo in Spanish among them.
πAlchemical symbol for horse dungU+1F756 Alchemical symbol for horse dung. A real character with that official name, in the Alchemical Symbols block since Unicode 6.0.
ι§ColtU+99D2 CJK unified ideograph-99D2. Unihan: colt; fleet, swift. Koma in Japanese.
πEgyptian hieroglyph horseU+130D7 Egyptian hieroglyph E006. Unicode describes it as a horse, about to rear, front legs nearly vertical. It shows as an empty box where no font has hieroglyphs.
馬Horse in Chinese and JapaneseU+99AC CJK unified ideograph-99AC. Unihan defines it as horse: mΗ in Mandarin, uma in Japanese. It is also the label on the black horse in xiangqi.
εHorse of the zodiacU+5348 CJK unified ideograph-5348. Unihan defines it as the seventh earthly branch, the one the Year of the Horse goes by. Mandarin reading: wΗ.
πLinear B horseU+10083 Linear b ideogram B105 equid. From Linear B, the script Wikipedia describes as used for Mycenaean Greek, with its earliest examples from around 1450 BC. Unicode names the sign equid.
πLinear B mareU+10084 Linear b ideogram B105F mare. The same sign, marked female.
π Linear B stallionU+10085 Linear b ideogram B105M stallion. The same sign, marked male.
ι¨To ride a horseU+9A0E CJK unified ideograph-9A0E. Unihan: ride horseback; mount; cavalry. Dictionaries file it under the horse radical, number 187.
λ€κ·Έλ₯ λ€κ·Έλ₯A trot in Korean (dag-dak dag-dak)
νμWhinny in Korean (hi-ing)
cataclop cataclopA gallop in French
clip clopA trot in English
wiehiehieWhinny in German
Horse combos 17
π΄π₯Carrot, no stickHorse face, then carrot. The better half of the method.
ππ΅οΈClear roundHorse, then rosette. No fences down. Unicode files the rosette with its flowers, not its prizes.
ππDark horseNew moon, then horse. The one nobody saw coming.
π΄π¬From the horse's mouthHorse face, then speech balloon. First-hand, from the one who would know.
π΄πΎHay is for horsesHorse face, then sheaf of rice. Unicode calls it a sheaf of rice. It is the nearest thing to hay the list has.
πͺπHigh horseLadder, then horse. The ladder is for getting down off it.
βππHold your horsesRaised hand, then horse 2 times. For a group chat that is getting ahead of itself.
ππ¦Horse in pyjamasHorse, then zebra. Same outline, louder coat.
πβ¨π¦Horse, upgradedHorse, then sparkles, then unicorn. Before and after.
πποΈHorsepowerHorse, then racing car. The unit, illustrated.
π€ ππInto the sunsetCowboy hat face, then horse, then sunset. Roll credits.
πβοΈKnight's moveHorse, then chess pawn. Two squares on and one across, over anything in the way.
πππΈπPhoto finishHorse racing 2 times, then camera with flash, then chequered flag. Too close to call without the picture.
π π π πΆThree abreastCarousel horse 3 times, then musical notes. A carousel row, organ included.
ππTrojan horseHorse, then wrapped gift. A gift. Check inside.
ππππ¨Wild horsesHorse 3 times, then dashing away. Three of them, leaving.
ππ§§π§¨Year of the HorseHorse, then red envelope, then firecracker. The seventh animal of the Chinese zodiac. Wikipedia dates the 2026 one from 17 February 2026 to 5 February 2027; the next begins on 4 February 2038.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 10 emoji, their names, code points 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. Four entries of that file have horse in their name: horse face and horse (group Animals & Nature), horse racing (People & Body, subgroup person-sport) and carousel horse (Travel & Places). None is named horseshoe or knight. The 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, main branch). CLDR lists the word horse for those four and no others, horseshoe for magnet alone, and chess for chess pawn alone. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. The hieroglyph description is the kEH_Desc value of U+130D7 in Unikemet.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unikemet.txt). The meanings and readings of the five Han characters are the kDefinition, kMandarin, kJapaneseKun, kTotalStrokes and kRSUnicode values of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). Wikipedia's article Knight (chess) records that the piece is carved as a horse's head and neck, jumps over other pieces and is called horse in several languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_(chess)); its article Xiangqi records that the horse there moves one point orthogonally and then one diagonally and cannot jump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi); its article Knight (playing card) describes the card and its place between the jack and the queen in tarot packs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_(playing_card)); its article Linear B gives Mycenaean Greek and around 1450 BC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B); the Unicode versions and block names of the chess, xiangqi and alchemical characters are from DerivedAge.txt and Blocks.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt and https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt); its article Horse (zodiac) gives the seventh place in the cycle and the dates 17 February 2026 to 5 February 2027, with 4 February 2038 for the next (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_(zodiac)); the whinnies, trots and gallops are from the equine table of its article Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias). The 3 horseshoe stand-ins, the choice of 9 sounds and the 17 combos are this site's own, and the combo names are our own. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are ours. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia are restated in our own words and credited in the source line.