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Meaning & usage
What does the Black Bird emoji mean?
A black bird, used as the raven and crow emoji.
Moody and a little mysterious. Gothic and Halloween posts use it most.
How to use 🐦⬛ naturally
Gothic aesthetics, Halloween, poetry and birdwatching.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of 🐦⬛
- 2022
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Black Bird was first defined as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. A modest release continuing the annual cadence.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2022 as the bird joined to a black square. Unicode chose one generic black bird so it could stand for ravens, crows and blackbirds at once.
- Today
How its use evolved
Gothic aesthetics, Halloween, poetry and birdwatching.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🐦⬛ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Autumn aesthetic complete 🐦⬛
Three of them on the fence again 🐦⬛
Quoth the raven 🐦⬛
When to use it
Using 🐦⬛ clearly
Gothic aesthetics, Halloween, poetry and birdwatching. It lands as raven emoji or crow emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the black bird emoji
What does 🐦⬛ mean in a text message?
A black bird, used as the raven and crow emoji. Moody and a little mysterious. Gothic and Halloween posts use it most.
Is 🐦⬛ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are raven emoji, crow emoji, 🐦⬛ meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🐦⬛ look different on another device?
U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the black bird emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🐦⬛ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the black bird emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🐦⬛ as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🐦⬛ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🐦‍⬛ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐦‍⬛ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F426 \200D \2B1B | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F426}\u{200D}\u{2B1B} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%90%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%AC%9B | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- raven emojicrow emoji🐦⬛ meaning
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