Animals & Nature · Emoji 15.0
🪿Goose Emoji
Generally, the 🪿 emoji just means “goose feathers.” People use it when they want to reference geese, or when something feels a little bit wild or silly.
Also searched as silly emoji.
The 🪿 emoji is a pair of goose feathers.
- Unicode
- U+1FABF
- Released
- 2022
- Shortcode
- :goose:
- Skin tones
- No
Added in Emoji 15.0. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🪿 Goose emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
02 — Platforms
Goose emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FABF — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your goose 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
Goose 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 :goose:.
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+1FABF.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🪿 Goose emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FABF when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Goose 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
06 — Combinations
Goose emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around goose 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
Who sent the goose and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🪿 means in other countries
Carries two solid English idioms about pointless effort, plus a very different reputation as an urban park nuisance.
A “wild goose chase” is a pointless search, and to “cook someone's goose” means to ruin their plans.
Canada geese are often seen as a loud, messy nuisance in parks and cities.
Before you send it: Works well for “pointless errand” jokes; no cultural landmine beyond that idiom usage.
10 — Apps
What 🪿 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FABF, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Related
Emojis similar to the Goose emoji
Same family (animal-bird) — often confused with goose or used alongside it.
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Phoenix
🐶Dog Face
🐱Cat Face
🐭Mouse Face
🐹Hamster
🐰Rabbit Face
Collections 🪿 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
12 — History
Where the 🪿 Goose emoji came from
It arrived with the 15.0 release of the standard, which dates the goose to 2022.
Same character every time — U+1FABF 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.
Goose was approved as U+1FABF and shipped in Emoji 15.0 (2022). 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