🦅Eagle Emoji
Basically, when someone sends you an eagle emoji, they’re usually just saying they admire something or want to express a feeling of strength and freedom. It’s a straightforward way to show you’re impressed.
The eagle emoji 🦅 represents strength and freedom.
- Unicode
- U+1F985
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :eagle:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦅 Eagle emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Eagle emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F985 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your eagle looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Eagle emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :eagle:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F985.
How to type the 🦅 Eagle emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F985 when there is no key at all.
Eagle emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the eagle 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
Eagle emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around eagle 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🦅 means in other countries
A heavyweight national symbol in several countries, so the meaning shifts with whose flag you’re thinking of.
Represents the nation itself — freedom, patriotism, official seals.
National emblem from the Aztec founding legend, on the flag itself.
Federal eagle (Bundesadler) is an official state symbol, used formally.
Before you send it: Great for pride or achievement posts; just know it’s tied to specific flags, not a generic bird.
What 🦅 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F985, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🦅 Eagle emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the eagle to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F985 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.
Eagle was approved as U+1F985 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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.