Animals & Nature · Emoji 13.0
🪶Feather Emoji
Generally, the feather emoji just means "feather." People use it to represent the image of a feather, often in a decorative or aesthetic way.
Also searched as flight emoji.
The 🪶 emoji is a feather.
- Unicode
- U+1FAB6
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :feather:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🪶 Feather emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
People also look for it as flight emoji.
02 — Platforms
Feather emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAB6. 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
Feather emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :feather:.
All emoji copy and paste →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+1FAB6.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🪶 Feather emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Feather 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Feather emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around feather 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
A light, breezy idiom in English, but an eagle feather is sacred and earned in Native American and First Nations culture.
An eagle feather is sacred and earned, tied to honor rather than being a casual decoration.
“Light as a feather” or “a feather in your cap” describe lightness or a proud achievement.
Before you send it: Fine for the lightness idiom; avoid pairing it with headdress or costume imagery, which reads as appropriation.
09 — Apps
What 🪶 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FAB6, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 🪶 Feather emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAB6 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.
Feather was approved as U+1FAB6 and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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.
12 — FAQ