Penguin emoji 🐧
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F427
What 🐧 means
Penguin 🐧 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, antarctica, bird, ornithology.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or antarctica 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?
🐧 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🐧
To find 🐧 quickly, type penguin into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type penguin.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type penguin in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type penguin.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐧 as one code point, U+1F427: 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+1F427 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐧 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐧 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F427"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F427} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%A7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 A7 |
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 penguin emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐧 "penguin" and links it with animal, antarctica, bird, ornithology. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the birds subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the penguin emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the penguin emoji?
To find 🐧 quickly, type penguin into the emoji search.