๐ฆDuck Emoji
Generally, the ๐ฆ emoji is used to indicate something is silly or ridiculous. People send it to show they find something funny or absurd.
The ๐ฆ emoji represents a duck.
- Unicode
- U+1F986
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :duck:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ๐ฆ Duck emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Duck emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F986. 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 โ iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Duck emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation โ including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :duck:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F986.
How to type the ๐ฆ Duck emoji
No picker to hand? The duck can be typed straight from the keyboard โ the codes for that are below, one per system.
Duck emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files โ one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Duck emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around duck 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 ๐ฆ, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ๐ฆ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What ๐ฆ means in other countries
Playful in most of the world, but in Chinese slang it can refer to a male sex worker, similar to the chicken emoji.
โLame duckโ describes an outgoing official with reduced power.
โ้ธญโ (duck) is slang for a male sex worker, an edgy or crude reference.
Usually just rubber-duck cuteness, bath toys, or a literal bird at the park.
Before you send it: Safe for cute or political banter; avoid it as a label for a man in Chinese-language chats.
What ๐ฆ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings โ where the duck lands changes how it is taken.
Where the ๐ฆ Duck emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time โ U+1F986 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.
Duck was approved as U+1F986 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 ๐ฆ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes โ only the picture does.