Turkey emoji 🦃
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F983
What 🦃 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Turkey 🦃 is tagged with these keywords: bird, gobble, thanksgiving.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing bird or gobble in the emoji search brings up 🦃.
Turkey 🦃 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 1.0 in 2015. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
How to type 🦃
Any emoji picker finds 🦃 when you search for turkey.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type turkey.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type turkey in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type turkey.
Codes for developers
Turkey 🦃 is a single code point, U+1F983. 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+1F983 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦃 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦃 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F983"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F983} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%83 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 83 |
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 turkey emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦃 "turkey" and links it with bird, gobble, thanksgiving. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the birds subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the turkey emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the turkey emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🦃 when you search for turkey.