How to Make Cowboy Emoji with Keyboard?

Unicode has more than 3600 emoji symbols including hundreds of face emoji symbols. However, only few face emoji symbols are popular and well-known compared to others. Thinking face, tears of joy, ROFL, face with sunglasses and cowboy face are some of the most popular face emoji symbols. In this article, we will will explain how to make cowboy face emoji symbol using keyboard on different platforms like Windows and Mac.

Shortcuts for Cowboy Face Emoji

Cowboy face is part of Unicode face-hat category that contains the following three emoji symbols.

Emoji	Name	Windows Code	Word Code
🤠	Cowboy Hat Face	Alt + 129312	1F920 Alt + X
🥳	Partying Face	Alt + 129395	1F973 Alt + X
🥸	Disguised Face	Alt + 129400	1F978 Alt + X

Cowboy emoji has a codepoint of U+1F920, which you can use to make the symbol by using in different formats like below.

Symbol Name	Cowboy Hat Face (🤠)
Alt Code Shortcut	Alt + 129312
Word Shortcut	1F920 Alt + X
HTML Entity Decimal	🤠
HTML Entity Hexadecimal	🤠
CSS Value	\1F920;
Unicode	U+1F920

Make Cowboy Emoji in Windows

You can use alt code shortcuts or emoji keyboard in Windows to insert the cowboy emoji.

Alt code decimal shortcut – turn on the number lock on your keyboard and type 129312 using number pad by holding the alt key. This will make the cowboy emoji symbol like 🤠.
Alt code hexadecimal shortcut – on Microsoft Word documents, type the hexadecimal value 1f920 and press alt + x keys to convert the code into cowboy symbol.
Using emoji panel – If keyboard shortcuts are not working, especially on third-party applications like Twitter (X) and Facebook Messenger, you can use the in-built emoji panel in Windows. Press “Win Logo + Semicolon” or “Win Logo + Dot” shortcut keys. This will open the emoji panel and search for “cowboy” to filter the emoji. Click on the symbol when found to insert.

Insert Cowboy Emoji in Mac

Follow the below instructions if you want to make cowboy in macOS applications like Pages. This will also work on Word and other Office applications for Mac.

Press “Command + Control + Shift” shortcut keys or go to “Edit > Emoji & Symbols” menu in any application to open Character Viewer app.
Type “cowboy” in the search box to filter the symbol.
You can preview how the emoji will look and double click the symbol to insert it in your document.
This will also work on all third-party applications like Facebook Messenger, Instagram or Twitter (X). Remember, the symbol display may vary depending upon the third-party application you use.

Inserting Cow Boy Emoji in Android and iPhone

Both Android and iOS smartphones make it easy for inserting emoji symbols like cowboy face. On iOS, you have an in-built option to insert emoji while on Android you may need to use keyboard extension apps like Gboard from Google. Below is the process with an example from iPhone, you can follow the same process in Android as well.

When you are in any application that has text box, tap on the smiling face emoji symbol on your keyboard.

This will switch your keyboard layout to emoji keyboard and show the complete list of all Unicode emoji.

Use the search box to type “cowboy” and filter the emoji.
Tap on it to insert in the text box and send the emoji. Now, you can switch the keyboard back to continue typing your text message.

Inserting On HTML Webpages

Similar to other applications, you can also insert this emoji in webpages using HTML escape entity strings. Use one of the below strings in your HTML document to make the emoji:

<p>&#129312;</p>
<p>&#x1F920;</p>

Alternatively, you can use the following CSS code to insert the symbol before a list element.

li:before {
	content:\1F920;
}

Symbol Display and Variations

The emoji will look solid in all Mac applications and third-party apps like Facebook. However, Office documents in Windows computer including Outlook emails will show the emoji in greyscale. Though this will look simple, the good part is that you can customize the emoji by applying text effects which you can’t do with solid emoji. Below is how the customized emoji will look like in a text document.