Animals & Nature · Emoji 15.1
Phoenix Emoji
🐦🔥 is the phoenix, the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes. People send it for comebacks, glow-ups, or bouncing back stronger.
It shows a bird wreathed in flame, based on the phoenix myth found across ancient Greek and Egyptian cultures, where the bird burns up and is reborn from its own ashes.
- Unicode
- U+1F426 U+200D U+1F525
- Released
- 2023
- Shortcode
- :phoenix:
- Skin tones
- No
Added in Emoji 15.1. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🐦🔥 Phoenix emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Phoenix emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F426. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 4.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Phoenix emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :phoenix:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the phoenix, code point U+1F426.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🐦🔥 Phoenix emoji
No picker to hand? The phoenix can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Phoenix emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 4. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
06 — Combinations
Phoenix emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around phoenix for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🐦🔥 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What 🐦🔥 means in other countries
A rebirth-from-fire symbol recognized across many traditions, though the details of the myth shift by culture.
the bird that burns and rises renewed, the classic “phoenix” story most people know
closer to the fenghuang, an imperial and feminine symbol paired with the dragon, not literally fire-reborn
used loosely to mean “I bounced back from a genuinely hard period”
Before you send it: Works well as a comeback or resilience symbol in almost any caption; no need to overthink it.
09 — Apps
What 🐦🔥 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F426, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 🐦🔥 Phoenix emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 15.1, the phoenix has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 3.
Same character every time — U+1F426 U+200D U+1F525 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.
Phoenix was approved as U+1F426 U+200D U+1F525 and shipped in Emoji 15.1 (2023). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐦🔥 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ