🐦 Bird plus a black square, joined into one solid black bird on phones that support the pairing and shown as two separate emoji on the ones that don't. Its dark, unspecified silhouette gets read as a crow or a raven interchangeably, and it's become a favorite for gothic aesthetics, omens, and moody captions in search of a bit of edge.
What 🐦⬛ means
A black bird — a crow or raven — with its distinctive dark silhouette. The 🐦⬛ Black Bird emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) is technically a clever combination of 🐦 and a black square joined behind the scenes, and it gave corvid fans, goths, and Poe readers exactly the bird they'd been asking for.
Crows read as intelligence, mystery, omens, and autumn moods — a very different vibe from the cheerful default 🐦.
How and when to use it
- Spooky-season essential: "October 1st. The 🐦⬛ have assembled."
- For corvid appreciation (they remember faces!): "The neighborhood 🐦⬛ brought me a bottle cap again. We're friends now."
- Literature and lyrics love it — Poe, Hitchcock, and every moody playlist cover.
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-bird
- Codepoints
U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:black_bird:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- animal, beak, bird, black, caw, corvid, crow, ornithology, raven, rook
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🐦⬛ Black Bird or 🆔 ID Button?