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🐧Penguin Emoji
🐧 is the penguin emoji, U+1F427, one of 22 in the Birds set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for animal, antarctica and bird.
What 🐧 penguin 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, antarctica and bird and files it under Animals & Nature → Birds.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F427 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐧 | |
| HTML decimal | 🐧 | |
| CSS | \1F427 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F427} | |
| Python | \U0001F427 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC27 | |
| Rust | \u{1f427} | |
| Swift | \u{1F427} | |
| PHP | \u{1F427} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%A7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 A7 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC27 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Qpw== | |
| Decimal | 128039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🐧
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “penguin”. - 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 type1f427and 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 🐧 penguin emoji mean?+
🐧 is the penguin emoji, tagged animal, antarctica 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 🐧?+
penguin is U+1F427. In HTML that is 🐧, in CSS \1F427, and in JavaScript \u{1F427}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐧 emoji added?+
penguin 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 🐧 penguin.