Flamingo emoji 🦩
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9A9
What 🦩 means
Flamingo 🦩 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, bird, flamboyant, ornithology, tropical.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or bird on your phone to find 🦩.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦩 sits with the birds (22 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🦚 🦜 🪽 🐦⬛.
Will 🦩 show on my friend's phone?
🦩 dates from Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🦩
To find 🦩 quickly, type flamingo into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type flamingo.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type flamingo in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type flamingo.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦩 as one code point, U+1F9A9: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9A9 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦩 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦩 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9A9"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9A9} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%A9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 A9 |
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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What does the flamingo emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦩 "flamingo" and links it with animal, bird, flamboyant, ornithology. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the birds subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the flamingo emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the flamingo emoji?
To find 🦩 quickly, type flamingo into the emoji search.