🐧Penguin Emoji
Generally, the penguin emoji just means a penguin. People use it to represent the animal itself or to add a bit of fun to a message.
The 🐧 emoji represents a penguin.
- Unicode
- U+1F427
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :penguin:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐧 Penguin emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Penguin emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F427. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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 — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Penguin emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :penguin:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the penguin, code point U+1F427.
How to type the 🐧 Penguin emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Penguin emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the penguin 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
Penguin emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around penguin 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 🐧, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐧 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🐧 means in other countries
About as neutral as emoji get — cold, cute, a little clumsy, with no real cultural baggage anywhere.
Recognized as the Linux mascot Tux, a friendly in-joke among developers and engineers.
Stands in for waddling, clumsiness, or just liking the cold.
Before you send it: Use it however you like — there’s no context, formal or casual, where this one raises an eyebrow.
What 🐧 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F427, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🐧 Penguin 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 — U+1F427 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.
🐧 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E750, KDDI au E4DC, SoftBank E055.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Penguin was approved as U+1F427 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 🐧 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.