A peacock with its tail fanned into a full wheel of blue and green eye-spots, the display pose rather than its plainer folded-tail look. 'Proud as a peacock' is the obvious idiom it plays into — showing off, strutting, making sure everyone notices. The bird is also NBC's longtime emblem, which is where its streaming service got its name.
What 🦚 means
This peacock appears full body with all its feathers fanned out, standing on two yellowish legs. It is designed with soothing shades of blue and green, along with a little detailing in the feathers.
Although the 🦚 Peacock emoji refers to a male peafowl, it can be used to refer to any gender and any species of the bird. It signifies beauty, pride (as the phrase goes), and a sense of being luring and pretentious just to get more chicks (it's true).
How and when to use it
- Are you flaunting the flawless 'peacock' makeup look you just pulled off, or a new 'blue-green' dress you bought or a couple of gorgeous peacock feathers that you gathered? Anything peacock-related post can use a 🦚 emoji in the caption.
- Use 🦚 while sharing those spectacular peacock photos that you managed to capture. It can also be a repost or retweet of some stunning peacock photos or videos.
- If you find someone to be as gorgeous as a peacock and that much pretentious, or someone who dresses up just to get some attraction and attention, you can use 🦚 to describe or refer to that person. Like "So.... I was telling you about him right? Guess what, he truly sucks 🦚".
- You can also use 🦚 to comment on a post that's quite flashy and unnecessarily dramatic.
Other Names
- 🦚 Peafowl
- 🦚 Peahen
- 🦚 Mayura
- 🦚 Blue-Green Bird
- 🦚 Dancing Bird
- 🦚 Attracter
- 🦚 Prancing Peacock
- 🦚 National Bird of India
- 🦚 Dancing Peacock
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-bird
- Codepoints
U+1F99A- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:peacock:- Keywords
- animal, bird, colorful, ornithology, ostentatious, peacock, peahen, pretty, proud
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 — 🦚 Peacock or 🪅 Piñata?
Runs with a crowd
🦚 keeps company in krishna janmashtami emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.