Duck emoji 🦆
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F986
What 🦆 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Duck 🦆 is tagged with these keywords: animal, bird, ornithology.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing animal or bird in the emoji search brings up 🦆.
Duck 🦆 is one of 22 emoji in the birds subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to 🦢 🦉 🦤 🪶.
Will 🦆 show on my friend's phone?
🦆 arrived with Emoji 3.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
How to type 🦆
Any emoji picker finds 🦆 when you search for duck.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type duck.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type duck in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type duck.
Codes for developers
Duck 🦆 is a single code point, U+1F986. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F986 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦆 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦆 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F986"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F986} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%86 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 86 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦆 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the duck emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦆 "duck" and links it with animal, bird, ornithology. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the birds subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the duck emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the duck emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🦆 when you search for duck.