Turkey Emoji
Animals
A full-bodied, brown-feathered turkey standing in profile. It features a fan-shaped tail, a red wattle hanging from its beak, and a distinctive fleshy growth known as a snood.
Usage Context
Widely used during the autumn months to reference Thanksgiving dinner, holiday travel, or the act of cooking a large feast. It is also frequently deployed in sports-related discussions to represent a 'turkey'—the term for three consecutive strikes in a game of bowling—often paired with 🎳.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2015 as part of Emoji 1.0, the turkey was highly requested by users looking for a way to mark the North American Thanksgiving holiday. Its inclusion helped round out the farm animal category, moving beyond basic poultry icons like 🐔.
Details
Glyph
🦃
Unicode
U+1F983
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f983:
HTML Entity
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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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