Chicken

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Shortcode
:chicken:
Unicode
U+1F414
HTML
🐔
CSS
\1F414
JavaScript
"\u{1F414}"
URL
%F0%9F%90%94

animalbirdornithology

What ๐Ÿ” means

A live chicken. Calling someone a "chicken" means they are scared, so ๐Ÿ” often teases a person for backing out.

Farm life, backyard flocks and egg talk use it plainly. It also turns up in "winner winner chicken dinner" moments after a win in a game.

For chicken as food, people use ๐Ÿ— instead.

Facts

Chicken ๐Ÿ” is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal bird. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :chicken:. People also look for it with words like โ€œanimalโ€, โ€œbirdโ€, or โ€œornithologyโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. chicken, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. chicken, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. chicken, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. chicken, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

animals & nature ยท Unicode 6.0