Animals & Nature · Emoji 14.0
🪹Empty Nest Emoji
🪹 is an empty twig nest, used to talk about loneliness, an empty house, or someone who just left. It’s the “empty nest syndrome” emoji.
🪹 shows a bare bird’s nest with no eggs or babies inside, woven from twigs and sitting on a branch.
- Unicode
- U+1FAB9
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :empty_
nest: - Skin tones
- No
Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🪹 Empty Nest emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
02 — Platforms
Empty Nest emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the empty nest as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Empty Nest emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :empty_nest:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAB9.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🪹 Empty Nest emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Empty Nest emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the empty nest 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
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Empty Nest emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around empty nest 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 with 🪹, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🪹 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 🪹 means in other countries
A bare nest, mostly used for the “empty nest” idea — kids grown and gone — rather than for the literal object.
captions the moment children move out and the house feels noticeably emptier
occasionally tags an actual abandoned bird's nest found outdoors
Before you send it: Good for the bittersweet “kids are grown” moment; less useful for much else outside that context.
10 — Apps
What 🪹 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the empty nest lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Related
Emojis similar to the Empty Nest emoji
Same family (plant-other) — often confused with empty nest or used alongside it.
Animals & Nature →
Leafless Tree
🐶Dog Face
🐱Cat Face
Collections 🪹 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
12 — Difference
🪹 vs 🪺 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Empty Nest
Code: U+1FAB9 · added 2021
Shortcode: :empty_nest:
🪹 is an empty twig nest, used to talk about loneliness, an empty house, or someone who just left.
Unicode name: Nest With Eggs
Code: U+1FABA · added 2021
Shortcode: :nest_with_eggs:
🪺 is a nest full of eggs, used for talk of pregnancy, new beginnings, or nurturing something fragile and precious, from a baby to a big new plan.
13 — History
Where the 🪹 Empty Nest emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAB9 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.
Empty Nest was approved as U+1FAB9 and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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.
14 — FAQ