🐓

Rooster Emoji 🐓

The male counterpart to 🐔 Chicken, comb and wattle more pronounced, tail feathers swept up rather than a hen's flatter profile. Early risers use it for the crack-of-dawn crow, and it's also one of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, so it shows up heavily around Lunar New Year for anyone born in a Rooster year.

What 🐓 means

A full-body profile of a rooster with white feathers, a tail, thin yellowish legs, and claws, with a red comb on top of the head and wattles of the same colour.

The 🐓 Rooster emoji signifies poultry farming and a natural morning alarm. On the other hand, this emoji can also refer to meat and non-vegetarian food.

How and when to use it

If you're posting a photos and/or videos with your roosters or with your farm, you can use 🐓 in that post caption.
You can also use 🐓 in your social media profile if you love roosters, or if you're into poultry farming, or if you work towards the welfare of these birds, or if you love Alice in Chains (if you get it, you get it).
Use 🐓 while sharing information about roosters; caring for the birds, animal husbandry, etc, on your social media handle.
If yours is a restaurant social media page that serves chicken primarily, then you must have 🐓 in your social media profile name along with the 🐔 Chicken emoji.
If you're waking someone up with a text message or constant spams, or if you're wishing someone a good morning, you can use 🐓 in such messages.
If you love wine, or moreover, Tuscan Black Rooster and you're telling your buds about your drinking options for the party tonight, use 🐓 in such contexts, like "Come on over and the Black Rooster's all yours 🐓".

Other Names

🐓 Male Chicken
🐓 Chicken
🐓 Fowl
🐓 Poultry
🐓 Cockerel
🐓 Cock
🐓 Chanticleer (if the rooster were from a fairytale)

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-bird
Codepoints: U+1F413
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :rooster:
Keywords: animal, bird, ornithology, rooster

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.