🐔

Chicken Emoji 🐔

A plain farmyard hen, comb on its head, the chicken emoji covers actual poultry and farm posts, but online it's mostly used for calling someone a coward. 'Don't be a chicken' means backing out of a dare, chickening out of a plan at the last second.

What 🐔 means

A facial profile of a chicken with a yellow beak, black eyes, a red comb, and wattles of the same color that continue from around the eyes. The beak has a tiny black hole on it, representing the nostril.

Although the 🐔 Chicken emoji has both positive and negative connotations to it, it mostly means meat or food. The kind of meat/food most non-vegetarians prefer and relish, after pork, of course.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing pictures or videos of your favorite chicken recipe or a new dish you tried, you can use 🐔 in such captions.
Use 🐔 in your social media profile name if you love chicken and/or you're a poultry farmer.
You can also use 🐔 while sharing informative content about chickens, be it about farming, chicken welfare, health, etc.
If you're posting about a new chicken restaurant that you went to or texting someone about the same, use 🐔 in such contexts.
🐔 is also a great way to indicate 'what's for dinner' or 'what's cookin'.
If you're sharing pictures and/or videos of a chicken costume you or your little one pulled off for an event, use 🐔 in those post captions.
If you feel that someone's 'chickening out' of a scene or a plan, you can use 🐔 to catch them red-handed. Like "Ohh. Stop right there. I know what you're doing 🐔" or "Bruh. He's not coming 🐔".

Other Names

🐔 Birdie
🐔 Fowl
🐔 Broiler
🐔 Rooster
🐔 Hen
🐔 Cockerel
🐔 Capon
🐔 Chick
🐔 Poularde

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-bird
Codepoints: U+1F414
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :chicken:
Keywords: animal, bird, chicken, ornithology

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.