🐧

Penguin Emoji 🐧

A black-and-white penguin standing upright, flippers at its sides, built for a cold climate it clearly isn't dressed to leave. Antarctica trips and zoo visits get the literal use, and tech circles reach for it constantly too, since a penguin named Tux has been the Linux mascot since the mid-1990s.

What 🐧 means

A facial profile of a penguin with a black and white coat and a bit of orange at the side. The character is designed with an orangish beak that is broad and sharp.

The 🐧 Penguin emoji refers to any penguin irrespective of the breed, species, and origin. It signifies the poles, cold weather, winter, monogamy (they too, believe in soulmates), and some cartoon characters too! (are your feet happy today?).

How and when to use it

If you're posting informative content about penguins such as their conservation and habitation, or even news updates about these friendly creatures, you can use 🐧 in those post captions.
Are you having a penguin-movie night with your kids, or did your little one make her first 'wheezy' sketch? Are you sharing those precious moments on your social media handle? Then, you must use 🐧 in such contexts.
🐧 can also be included in the context of Christmas, as they denote winter and snow which further denotes euro-centric imagery about the festive season.
You can also use 🐧 while reposting or retweeting videos about penguins; it can be an educational post, a news update, or even funny content.

Other Names

🐧 Pingu
🐧 Happy Feet
🐧 Penguins of Madagascar
🐧 Great Auk
🐧 Penguin Books
🐧 Wheezy
🐧 Pororo the Little Penguin
🐧 Cozy Heart Penguin
🐧 Tux
🐧 Henry (from Oswald)

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-bird
Codepoints: U+1F427
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :penguin:
Keywords: animal, antarctica, bird, ornithology, penguin

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.