Cow Emoji Kitchen
Two animals entered Emoji Kitchen together in the summer of 2023, cow and frog, and both were handed exactly 222 pairings to start. Cow has since reached 396 while frog stopped at 371. They make a useful comparison, because the starting conditions were identical and only Google's later attention differed.
Every Cow mashup, and the day Google shipped it
Google added Cow to Emoji Kitchen on 3 August 2023, starting with 222 combinations. It now mixes with 396 emojis, built up over 14 separate releases. The most recent, on 2 February 2026, added 12.
| Release | Combinations added | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 3.0% | |
| 3 | 0.8% | |
| 2 | 0.5% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 8 | 2.0% | |
| 54 | 13.6% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 39 | 9.8% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 24 | 6.1% | |
| 16 | 4.0% | |
| 2 earlier drops | 234 | 59.1% |
Newest Cow pairings
These partners arrived in the 2 February 2026 release, so they are the ones least likely to have been seen before.
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See every Emoji Kitchen release, with what each one added
Dates read from the Emoji Kitchen sticker assets Google serves through Gboard, which stamp each combination with the release that introduced it.
A controlled experiment, by accident
Identical debut date, identical debut size, same category, similar artwork style. Fourteen releases each. Cow has gained 174 since launch, frog 149. The gap is not large but it is consistent, and it shows up in the release tables as cow receiving slightly bigger top-ups each time. Neither has been targeted for a build-out the way shark or pizza were, so both are likely to stay in the high 300s for a while.
This is the cow face, not the whole cow
Unicode draws a cow face and a full-body cow, and keeps an ox and a water buffalo alongside them. All four mix independently in Emoji Kitchen. The face is what nearly everyone means and it is what this page covers. When a sticker you half-remember is missing from the grid, the full-body version is the next place to try, since the two are easy to confuse at message size.
Make your own mashup
Want to combine different emojis? Use the interactive Emoji Kitchen tool to create your own custom mashups.
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Cow Emoji Kitchen FAQ
How many cow emoji combinations are there?
396, against 619 possible partners. The opening batch in August 2023 accounted for 222 of those, and fourteen releases have supplied the remaining 174 between them.
Why do cow and frog have such similar numbers?
They were added on the same day with the same debut batch of 222 and have received similar treatment since. Cow is slightly ahead at 396 against frog's 371.
Is this the cow face or the full cow emoji?
The face. Unicode keeps a full-body cow, an ox and a water buffalo as distinct characters, and Google draws a distinct sticker set for each. Nothing from those three appears in the grid here.
Further reading
- Every Emoji Kitchen update since 2020All 43 dated drops and 147,000 pairings, counted from Googleโs own data files.
- How to use Emoji Mixer and KitchenWhich pairs actually produce a mashup, and which do nothing.
- Free online emoji gamesWhat to play, and which ones are actually hard.
- Free online emoji keyboardType emoji on any device without installing anything.