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Meaning & usage
What does the Dove emoji mean?
A white bird in flight, the long-standing sign of peace.
Gentle and serious. It suits condolences and calls for calm, and it is one of the few animals that almost nobody uses as a joke.
How to use 🕊️ naturally
Peace, condolences and quiet tributes.
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 🕊️
- 2014
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Dove was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Another retrospective label, covering characters recognised as emoji in 2014.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A white bird with its wings spread, drawn in profile. It entered Unicode with the 2014 symbol absorption, so it needs a variation selector, and it carries the peace symbolism of the dove almost everywhere it is used.
- Today
How its use evolved
Peace, condolences and quiet tributes.
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.
Thinking of your family 🕊️
Rest easy 🕊️
Hoping for calmer news 🕊️
When to use it
Using 🕊️ clearly
Peace, condolences and quiet tributes. It lands as dove emoji or peace 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 dove emoji
What does 🕊️ mean in a text message?
A white bird in flight, the long-standing sign of peace. Gentle and serious. It suits condolences and calls for calm, and it is one of the few animals that almost nobody uses as a joke.
Is 🕊️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are dove emoji, peace emoji, 🕊️ meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🕊️ look different on another device?
U+1F54A U+FE0F 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 dove 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 dove emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🕊️ as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. 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+1F54A U+FE0F | 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 | \1F54A \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F54A}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%95%8A%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F54A U+FE0F
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- dove emojipeace emoji🕊️ meaning
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