Black bird Emoji

Animals

A silhouette of a small bird, typically a crow or raven, rendered in solid black. It depicts the creature in profile, capturing the familiar shape of common urban scavengers found worldwide.

Usage Context

Frequently used to represent ravens, crows, or blackbirds in digital conversation. It is a go-to for themes involving gothic imagery, mystery, or nature photography. It often appears alongside other avian icons like 🐦 or symbols related to the night, such as 🌙.

History

While bird emojis have been part of the standard since the early days of mobile messaging, the black bird was officially added to the Unicode set in 2022 to provide a more specific option for users looking to depict dark-colored corvids rather than generic songbirds.

Details

Glyph

🐦‍⬛

Unicode

U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f426_200d_2b1b:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC26;‍⬛

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-bird

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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