Animals & Nature · Emoji 1.0
🦃Turkey Emoji
Generally, the 🦃 emoji means “turkey.” It’s most often used around Thanksgiving or when talking about the holiday’s food.
The 🦃 emoji is a picture of a turkey.
- Unicode
- U+1F983
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :turkey:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🦃 Turkey emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
Turkey emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F983. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Turkey 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 :turkey:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F983.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🦃 Turkey emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Turkey emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the turkey as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Turkey emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around turkey 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 🦃 means in other countries
Practically synonymous with Thanksgiving in the US, though English slang also uses “turkey” to mean a flop or a fool.
Strongly tied to Thanksgiving, appearing constantly in that context every November.
A “turkey” can also mean a flop or a foolish person, an older but still-used put-down.
Can read as a pun on the country Turkey (Türkiye) rather than the holiday bird.
Before you send it: Great for Thanksgiving posts; skip it as a reaction to someone's plan since “turkey” can mean “failure” in slang.
09 — Apps
What 🦃 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — History
Where the 🦃 Turkey emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the turkey to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F983 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.
Turkey was approved as U+1F983 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
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