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🐦⬛Black Bird Emoji
Tagged animal, beak and bird, 🐦⬛ black bird sits in Unicode's Birds group inside Animals & Nature. It was introduced in Emoji 15.0 (2022) at U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B.
What 🐦⬛ black 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, beak and bird and files it under Animals & Nature → Birds.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🐦⬛ is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
- 🐦U+1F426bird
- ·U+200DZero-width joiner
- ⬛U+2B1Bblack large square
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐦‍⬛ | |
| HTML decimal | 🐦‍⬛ | |
| CSS | \1F426\200D\2B1B | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F426}\u{200D}\u{2B1B} | |
| Python | \U0001F426\U0000200D\U00002B1B | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC26\u200D\u2B1B | |
| Rust | \u{1f426}\u{200d}\u{2b1b} | |
| Swift | \u{1F426}\u{200D}\u{2B1B} | |
| PHP | \u{1F426}\u{200D}\u{2B1B} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%AC%9B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 A6 E2 80 8D E2 AC 9B | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC26 200D 2B1B | |
| Base64 | 8J+QpuKAjeKsmw== | |
| Decimal | 128038 8205 11035 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 15.0 (2022) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🐦⬛
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “black 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 🐦⬛ black bird emoji mean?+
🐦⬛ is the black bird emoji, tagged animal, beak and bird. 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 🐦⬛?+
black bird is U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B. In HTML that is 🐦‍⬛, in CSS \1F426\200D\2B1B, and in JavaScript \u{1F426}\u{200D}\u{2B1B}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐦⬛ emoji added?+
black bird got its emoji presentation in Emoji 15.0 (2022). 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 Emoji 15.0 (2022)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐦⬛ black bird.