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Eastern fighting style animal emojis #399

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Crissov opened this issue Aug 30, 2017 · 0 comments
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Eastern fighting style animal emojis #399

Crissov opened this issue Aug 30, 2017 · 0 comments
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The Chinese zodiac has animals that are all represented (including most local variants) by emojis, many even with body and head variants. Other cultural traditions also employ similar animal symbolism. This includes kung-fu in particular.

Five Animals

Variant 1

Variant 2 (e.g. in Kung Fu Panda)

Variant 3: Qigong

12 Animals

  • 🐲🐉 Dragon (contracting and expanding)
  • 🐯🐅 Tiger (courage)
  • 🐵🐒 Monkey (agility)
  • 🐴🐎 Horse (speed)
  • 🐊 Alligator (gliding)
  • 🐓🐔 Cockerel (combative)
  • Hawk Bird of Prey emoji #229 (soaring)
  • Swallow (skimming)
  • 🐍 Snake (sliding)
  • Ostrich Ostrich emoji #93 (ramming)
  • 🦅 Eagle (gripping)
  • 🐻 Bear (stability)

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