Try Goose emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Goose emoji mean?
A goose in profile, for ponds, honking and cheerful menace.
Funny and a bit unhinged. Internet use leans on the goose as a troublemaker more than as wildlife.
How to use 🪿 naturally
Park photos, the video game about a terrible goose, and jokes about being silly.
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, Goose 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 2023 with a white body, orange bill and feet. The neck is drawn straighter than the swan's, which is the only reliable way to separate the two.
- Today
How its use evolved
Park photos, the video game about a terrible goose, and jokes about being silly.
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.
Chased across the entire park 🪿
Untitled behaviour all day 🪿
Honk 🪿
When to use it
Using 🪿 clearly
Park photos, the video game about a terrible goose, and jokes about being silly. It lands as goose emoji or 🪿 meaning 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 goose emoji
What does 🪿 mean in a text message?
A goose in profile, for ponds, honking and cheerful menace. Funny and a bit unhinged. Internet use leans on the goose as a troublemaker more than as wildlife.
Is 🪿 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are goose emoji, 🪿 meaning, bird emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🪿 look different on another device?
U+1FABF 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 goose 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 goose 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+1FABF | 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 | \1FABF | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FABF} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AA%BF | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FABF
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- goose emoji🪿 meaningbird emoji
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