Parrot Emoji
A bright parrot, for tropical birds, pets and repeating what was said.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Parrot emoji mean?
A bright parrot, for tropical birds, pets and repeating what was said.
Loud and colourful. Animated party parrot culture sits behind some of its use in work chat.
How to use 🦜 naturally
Pet posts, holiday photos and jokes about someone echoing another person.
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 🦜
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Parrot was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2018 with a red head, blue and yellow wing and a curved beak. The colour block is unusually strong for the animal set, and that is what lets it survive at small sizes.
- Today
How its use evolved
Pet posts, holiday photos and jokes about someone echoing another person.
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.
Repeats everything we say, including the bad words 🦜
Rainforest walk, so many of them 🦜
He just said my whole sentence back to me 🦜
When to use it
Using 🦜 clearly
Pet posts, holiday photos and jokes about someone echoing another person. It lands as parrot 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 parrot emoji
What does 🦜 mean in a text message?
A bright parrot, for tropical birds, pets and repeating what was said. Loud and colourful. Animated party parrot culture sits behind some of its use in work chat.
Is 🦜 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are parrot 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+1F99C 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 parrot 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 parrot emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🦜 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. 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+1F99C | 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 | \1F99C | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F99C} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%9C | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F99C
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- parrot emoji🦜 meaningbird emoji
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