Icon Request: Chinese 12 symbolic animals

[yarcowang]

I'm not quite sure...I mean it is funny. For example, you could use dragon as icon font with your name, that is really cool. But i don't know others like it or not... (these symbolic animals represent a circle of years -- each for one year, so if you born then you tagged one animal -- mine is monkey)

Rat charm,子鼠 
Ox patient,丑牛 
Tiger sensitive,寅虎 
Rabbit articulate,卯兔 
Dragon healthy,辰龙 
Snake deep,巳蛇 
Horse popular,午马 
Goat elegant,未羊 
Monkey clever,申猴 
Rooster deep thinkers,酉鸡 
Dog loyalty,戌狗 
Pig chivalrous.亥猪

957

[ghost]

+1

[Crissov]

Unicode has these as emojis and lists some local variants. For most of the animals, there are also (unified) facial variants. #222

#	Head	Animal	Body and alternatives
01	🐭	Rat	🐀 U+1F400 / Mouse 🐁 U+1F401/1F42D
02	🐮	Ox	🐂 U+1F402 / Water Buffalo 🐃 U+1F403 / Cow 🐄 U+1F404/1F42E
03	🐯	Tiger	🐅 U+1F405/1F42F / Leopard 🐆 U+1F406
04	🐰	Rabbit / Hare	🐇 U+1F407/1F430 / 🐈 Cat U+1F408/1F431
05	🐲	Dragon	🐉 U+1F409/1F432 / Snail 🐌 U+1F40C / 🐊 Crocodile U+1F40A / Whale 🐋🐳 U+1F40B/1F433 / Wolf 🐺 U+1F43A
06	—	Snake	🐍 U+1F40D
07	🐴	Horse	🐎 U+1F40E/1F434 (Unicorn 🦄 U+1F984)
08	—	Ram	🐏 U+1F40F / Goat 🐐 U+1F410 / Sheep 🐑 U+1F411
09	🐵	Monkey	🐒 U+1F412/1F435 (Gorilla 🦍 U+1F98D)
10	🐥	Rooster	🐓 U+1F413 / Chicken/Hen 🐔 U+1F414
11	🐶	Dog	🐕 U+1F415/1F436 (Fox 🦊 U+1F98A)
12	🐷	Pig	🐖 U+1F416/1F437 / Boar 🐗 U+1F417 / Elephant 🐘 U+1F418

These are the local variants mentioned in the Unicode Standard 9.0 (plus Kazakh variants from a different source):

Region / Culture	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12
China:	🐀	🐂	🐅	🐇	🐉	🐍	🐎	🐏	🐒	🐓	🐕	🐖
Japan:	🐀	🐂	🐅	🐇	🐉	🐍	🐎	🐏	🐒	🐓	🐕	🐗
Thai:	🐀	🐂	🐅	🐇	🐉	🐍	🐎	🐏	🐒	🐓	🐕	🐘
Kazakh:	🐀	🐂/🐄	🐅/🐆	🐇	🐌/🐺	🐍	🐎	🐏/🐑	🐒	🐓/🐔	🐕	🐖/🐗
Vietnam:	🐀	🐃	🐅	🐈	🐉	🐍	🐎	🐐	🐒	🐓	🐕	🐖
Persian:	🐁	🐄	🐆	🐇	🐊/🐋	🐍	🐎	🐑	🐒	🐔	🐕	🐖

Additionally, in Japan, Dragon is sometimes replaced by Seahorse, which has no emoji yet.

Two of these animals can be reused for the Western zodiac

#	Symbol	Sign	Pictographic emoji
01	♈️	Aries	🐏 Ram U+1F40F
02	♉️	Taurus	🐂 Ox U+1F402
03	♊️	Gemini	👬 (Male) Twins U+1F46C (…B/D)
04	♋️	Cancer	🦀 Crab U+1F980
05	♌️	Leo	🦁 Lion U+1F981
06	♍️	Virgo	👧 Girl U+1F467
07	♎️	Libra	⚖ Scales U+2696
08	♏️	Scorpius	🦂 Scorpion U+1F982
09	♐️	Sagittarius	🏹 Bow and Arrow U+1F3F9
10	♑️	Capricorn	🐐 (Sea) Goat U+1F410 or Ibex
11	♒️	Aquarius	🏺 Amphora (Pouring Water) U+1F3FA
12	♓️	Pisces	🐟 (2) Fish U+1F41F

Snake (“serpent”) 🐍 can be used for the 13th constellation, Ophiucus ⛎.

[Crissov]

Font Awesome 5 has some new animals, but some are still missing for this issue to be closed.

• [ ] Mouse
  • [ ] Rat
• [x] #4166 Cow
  • [ ] #1122 Ox
  • [ ] #1122 Water Buffalo
• [ ] #8413 Tiger
  • [ ] #8594 Leopard / Big Cat
• [x] #2453 Rabbit, also fast
  • [x] #2226 Cat
• [x] #2163 Dragon
  • [ ] Crocodile
  • [ ] #8559 Snail
  • [x] Whale (also Narwhal)
  • [ ] Seahorse
  • [ ] Wolf
• [x] #3016 Snake
• [x] #2049 Horse

  • 2780 Unicorn (also Alicorn and Pegasus)

• [x] #6909 Sheep
  • [x] Ram
  • [ ] Goat
• [x] #4158 Monkey

  • 8593 Gorilla

• [ ] Chicken (but Duck)
  • [ ] Rooster
  • [ ] Chick (but Kiwi)
• [x] #1317 Dog, also leashed
  • Fox
• [x] Pig
  • [ ] Boar
  • [x] #8592 Elephant

[sensibleworld]

This is a quick update to let folks know that we’re refining our icon request workflow behind the scenes, and as part of that we’re going through all open requests and filing them into several new buckets to be addressed.

In this case we’ve added this issue to our new list to be created! We can’t promise any firm timelines right now, but this will help us keep track of it.

We’ll update this issue when the icon is released into the wild 🙂