Turkey Emoji
A live turkey with its tail fanned, used almost entirely for Thanksgiving.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Turkey emoji mean?
A live turkey with its tail fanned, used almost entirely for Thanksgiving.
How to use 🦃 naturally
Thanksgiving plans, autumn dinners and jokes about the size of the bird.
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 🦃
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Turkey was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A turkey seen side-on with its tail fanned and the wattle showing. It is drawn alive rather than cooked, so the Thanksgiving reading comes entirely from the words around it.
- Today
How its use evolved
Thanksgiving plans, autumn dinners and jokes about the size of the bird.
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.
When to use it
Using 🦃 clearly
Thanksgiving plans, autumn dinners and jokes about the size of the bird. It lands as thanksgiving emoji or turkey 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 turkey emoji
What does 🦃 mean in a text message?
A live turkey with its tail fanned, used almost entirely for Thanksgiving.
Is 🦃 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are thanksgiving emoji, turkey emoji, 🦃 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🦃 look different on another device?
U+1F983 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 turkey 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 turkey emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🦃 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. 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+1F983 | 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 | \1F983 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F983} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%83 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F983
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- thanksgiving emojiturkey emoji🦃 meaning
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