🐦⬛
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.
At a glance
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-bird
- Codepoints
U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Keywords
- animal, beak, bird, black, caw, corvid, crow, ornithology, raven, rook
How it looks across platforms
