A single feathered wing, isolated rather than attached to any bird, added to keyboards in 2022. People use it for angel and spirituality posts, a loved one's memory, a guardian watching over someone, and looser still for freedom or personal growth, spreading your own wings without an actual bird anywhere nearby.
What 🪽 means
A single feathered wing, white and angelic. The 🪽 Wing emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) is deliberately open-ended: flight, freedom, angels, guardian energy, aviation, or the wings you're still growing.
Send it doubled 🪽🪽 and you've got a full set — a favorite for memorials, dreams, and anything that soars.
How and when to use it
- For freedom and new chapters: "Last exam done. 🪽 Free."
- A gentle symbol in remembrance posts: "Fly high, grandpa 🪽"
- Pilots, cabin crew, and frequent flyers use it as their badge: "Wheels up again ✈️🪽"
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-bird
- Codepoints
U+1FABD- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:wing:- Keywords
- angelic, ascend, aviation, bird, fly, flying, heavenly, mythology, soar, wing
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 — 🪽 Wing or 🏃♀️➡️ Woman Running: Facing Right?