๐Chicken Emoji
Generally, the chicken emoji just means a chicken. People use it to represent the animal or things associated with it, like eggs or farming.
The chicken emoji (๐) usually represents a chicken itself.
- Unicode
- U+1F414
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :chicken:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ๐ Chicken emoji mean?
One character, many names โ these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Chicken emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the chicken has been drawn in 4 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it โ iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Chicken emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :chicken:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F414.
How to type the ๐ Chicken emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system โ and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Chicken emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the chicken as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Chicken emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around chicken for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ๐, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
Chicken Emoji Kitchen stickers
Mixed with other emojis by Google's Kitchen โ 14 of those stickers exist for the chicken. Tap any to open it full size.
What ๐ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What ๐ means in other countries
Means coward in English slang, and in Chinese chat slang it can read as a crude reference to sex work.
โChickenโ or โchicken outโ means backing down from something, a mild jab.
โ้ธกโ (chicken) is slang for a female sex worker โ sending it to a woman can read as an insult.
Just fried chicken and beer culture (chimaek), completely casual.
Before you send it: Fine for food talk; avoid it as a standalone jab at someone in Chinese-language conversations.
What ๐ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings โ where the chicken lands changes how it is taken.
Where the ๐ Chicken emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time โ U+1F414 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
๐ existed there as
KDDI au EB23, SoftBank E52E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all โ Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Chicken was approved as U+1F414 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ๐ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes โ only the picture does.