A white bird in flight, usually holding a small olive sprig in its beak, an image lifted from the ark story where a returning dove signaled dry land. It's the standard symbol for peace and reconciliation, and it does quieter work at funerals too, doves released as a gesture of remembrance.
What 🕊️ means
A full-length profile of a dove with white feathers that are flared up while the body holds a flying position. The dove's beak has an olive branch in it, as a way of carrying it.
The 🕊️ Dove emoji signifies purity, nature, flight, and a sense of making peace with someone or something. To some extent, this emoji can also have a religious aspect to it too.
How and when to use it
- If your conversation of being playfully rude with someone went too far, and the other person started getting irritable, you can send 🕊️ as a 'peace offering', like "Hey, man. Chill out 🕊️. I'm sorry okay?".
- 🕊️ fits perfectly into any context that has 'peace' in it; it can be a news post about politics finding peace, or someone or something spreading peace, or even peace created in a sports scenario (after something nasty previously happened).
- If you're posting pictures and/or videos of yourself and the central theme of the post is 'peace', then too, you can use 🕊️ in the caption.
- Bring the 🕊️ emoji into the spirit of Christmas too! Much peace on earth, ain't it?
- Are you sharing pictures from your baptism day or that of your child's? Then, use 🕊️ in that context as well.
- You can also use 🕊️ while sharing 'peaceful' pictures of nature; like a blissful sunset, or a beautiful day at the beach, etc.
Other Names
- 🕊️ Pigeon
- 🕊️ White Bird
- 🕊️ Olive Branch
- 🕊️ Peace Offering
- 🕊️ Dove With an Olive Branch
- 🕊️ Holy Spirit
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-bird
- Codepoints
U+1F54A U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:dove:GitHub- Keywords
- bird, dove, fly, ornithology, peace
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 — 🕊️ Dove or 🕗 Eight O’clock?
Runs with a crowd
🕊️ keeps company in aesthetic emojis and animal emojis and white emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.