Animals & Nature · Emoji 11.0
🦢Swan Emoji
Generally, the swan emoji means you find something beautiful and elegant. It’s often used to express admiration or a sense of calm.
The swan emoji (🦢) represents a graceful bird, often associated with beauty and elegance.
- Unicode
- U+1F9A2
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :swan:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🦢 Swan emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
People also look for it as ugly emoji.
02 — Platforms
Swan emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9A2 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your swan looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Swan emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :swan:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9A2.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🦢 Swan emoji
No picker to hand? The swan can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Swan emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Swan emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around swan 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 swan and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🦢 means in other countries
Elegance and glow-up symbolism dominate, plus one genuinely odd legal fact about who owns swans in Britain.
Swans are historically the property of the Crown, an odd but real legal fact that comes up in trivia.
Symbol of grace and beauty, often tied to the “ugly duckling” glow-up story.
Before you send it: Reads as elegance almost everywhere; safe for compliments about someone's style or a glow-up.
09 — Apps
What 🦢 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the swan lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🦢 vs 🇧🇼 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Swan
Code: U+1F9A2 · added 2018
Shortcode: :swan:
Generally, the swan emoji means you find something beautiful and elegant.
Unicode name: Flag: Botswana
Code: U+1F1E7 U+1F1FC · added 2015
Shortcode: :flag-bw:
Generally, the Botswana flag emoji just represents the country.
12 — History
Where the 🦢 Swan emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9A2 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.
Swan was approved as U+1F9A2 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.
13 — FAQ