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🐦️Bird Emoji
Unicode added 🐦️ bird in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Animals & Nature → Birds. Its codepoint is U+1F426 U+FE0F, and it is tagged animal, ornithology.
What 🐦️ bird means
Birds do steady symbolic work: 🕊️ for peace and condolences, 🦅 for American patriotism, 🦉 for night owls and study posts, 🐔 for calling someone a coward. 🦩 flamingo and 🦚 peacock get used for aesthetic rather than ornithology. The newest member, 🐦🔥 phoenix, is a ZWJ sequence joining bird and fire, added in Emoji 15.1.
Unicode tags this one animal, ornithology and files it under Animals & Nature → Birds.
Copy variants
bird carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🐦️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🐦U+1F426bird
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F426 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐦️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🐦️ | |
| CSS | \1F426\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F426}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F426\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC26\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f426}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F426}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F426}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%A6%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 A6 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC26 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Qpu+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128038 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- animal
- ornithology
Appears in these collections
How to type 🐦️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “bird”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f426and Enter. - HTML — paste
🐦️.
How 🐦️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🐦️Apple
- 🐦️Segoe
- 🐦️Noto
- 🐦️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🐦️ bird emoji mean?+
🐦️ is the bird emoji, tagged animal, ornithology. Birds do steady symbolic work: 🕊️ for peace and condolences, 🦅 for American patriotism, 🦉 for night owls and study posts, 🐔 for calling someone a coward. 🦩 flamingo and 🦚 peacock get used for aesthetic rather than ornithology. The newest member, 🐦🔥 phoenix, is a ZWJ sequence joining bird and fire, added in Emoji 15.1.
What is the Unicode code for 🐦️?+
bird is U+1F426 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🐦️, in CSS \1F426\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F426}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐦️ emoji added?+
bird got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Birds in Animals & Nature.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐦️ bird.