Animals & Nature · Emoji 11.0
🦜Parrot Emoji
Generally, 🦜 means someone is talking a lot, repeating something, or acting like a parrot. It’s usually a lighthearted way to point out someone’s chattiness.
The 🦜 emoji is a parrot.
- Unicode
- U+1F99C
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :parrot:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🦜 Parrot emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
People also look for it as talk emoji, pirate emoji.
02 — Platforms
Parrot emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F99C. 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
Parrot emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :parrot:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F99C.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🦜 Parrot emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F99C when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Parrot emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the parrot 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
Parrot emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around parrot 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
Who sent the parrot and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🦜 means in other countries
Reads as a mild jab about mindless repetition in English, and as a warm regional wildlife symbol elsewhere.
“Parroting” means repeating something without understanding it, a mild put-down.
Common cultural and tourism symbol tied to rainforests and local wildlife.
Before you send it: Fine generally; it only turns pointed if you're implying someone is just repeating what they heard.
09 — Apps
What 🦜 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the parrot lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🦜 Parrot emoji came from
It arrived with the 11.0 release of the standard, which dates the parrot to 2018.
Same character every time — U+1F99C 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.
Parrot was approved as U+1F99C and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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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