Black bird emoji 🐦⬛
Emoji 15.0 (2022) · U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B
What 🐦⬛ means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🐦⬛ are animal, beak, bird, black, caw, corvid, crow, ornithology, raven, rook. They show what people use it for.
Search for animal or beak on your emoji keyboard and 🐦⬛ is among the results.
You will find 🐦⬛ among the birds (22 emoji), part of animals & nature with 161 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🪿 🐦🔥 🦃 🐔.
Will 🐦⬛ show on my friend's phone?
It depends on the phone. 🐦⬛ came with Emoji 15.0 in 2022, so systems updated after 2023 have it and older ones may not.
What 🐦⬛ is made of
Technically 🐦⬛ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🐦 bird + ⬛ black large square. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🐦⬛
Search for black bird in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🐦⬛.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type black bird.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type black bird in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type black bird.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🐦⬛ is 3 code points (U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B), 10 bytes in UTF-8 and 4 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐦‍⬛ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐦‍⬛ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F426 \200D \2B1B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F426}\u200D\u2B1B | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%AC%9B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 A6 E2 80 8D E2 AC 9B |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐦⬛ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | black bird |
| Português | pássaro preto |
| Español | pájaro negro |
| Italiano | merlo |
| Français | oiseau noir |
| Deutsch | schwarzer Vogel |
| Türkçe | siyah kuş |
| Bahasa Indonesia | burung hitam |
| Polski | czarny ptak |
| Русский | черная птица |
| 日本語 | 黒い鳥 |
| 한국어 | 검은 새 |
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the black bird emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐦⬛ "black bird" and links it with animal, beak, bird, black. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the birds subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the black bird emoji added?
In Emoji 15.0, released in 2022. Only phones and computers updated since 2023 show it; older ones may show a box.
Why does 🐦⬛ sometimes show as separate emoji?
It is a combination of 🐦 ⬛ joined by an invisible zero width joiner. Phones that do not know the combined emoji yet show the pieces one by one.