U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B
Black Bird
About
Black bird is a zero-width-joiner sequence combining π¦ bird and β¬ black large square. Part of the Animals & Nature group, animal bird subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 15.0, released in 2022.
Platform renderings
11 platforms shown using your device's own emoji font. Their artwork is proprietary and this site does not redistribute it.
Timeline
2016 β 2026Showing 69 of 69 events through 2026
- 2016First render
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- 2022First render
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- 2022First render
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- 2022First render
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- 2022Unicode
Added in Emoji 15.0
Introduced in Emoji 15.0
- 2022First render
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- 2023First render
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- 2023First render
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- 2023First render
First appeared on Microsoft Teams
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- 2023Redesign
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- 2023First render
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- 2023First render
First appeared on Microsoft 3D Fluent
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- 2023First render
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- 2023Redesign
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- 2023Redesign
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- 2023First render
Release date Windows 11 build 23h2.
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Community-maintained fork after Twitter archived the original repo.
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- 2023First render
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- 2024First render
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- 2024Redesign
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Microsoft 3D Fluent Fluent 15.1
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- 2024Redesign
Microsoft Windows 11 23h2 June 2024 Update
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- 2024Redesign
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Date it reached devices. AOSP source dropped 2024-09-03.
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- 2025Redesign
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Microsoft 3D Fluent Fluent 16.0
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Microsoft Windows 11 24h2 August 2025 Update
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- 2026Redesign
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- 2026First render
First appeared on Noto Animated Emoji
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Encodings
- UTF-8
F0 9F 90 A6 E2 80 8D E2 AC 9B- UTF-8 escaped
\xF0\x9F\x90\xA6\xE2\x80\x8D\xE2\xAC\x9B- UTF-16
D83D DC26 200D 2B1B- UTF-32
0001F426 0000200D 00002B1B- HTML decimal
🐦‍⬛- HTML hex
🐦‍⬛- CSS
\01F426\00200D\002B1B- JavaScript
\u{1F426}\u{200D}\u{2B1B}- JS surrogateFor pre-ES2015 targets
\uD83D\uDC26\u200D\u2B1B- Python
\U0001F426\u200D\u2B1B- URL encoded
%F0%9F%90%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%AC%9B- Base64
8J+QpuKAjeKsmw==
Unicode proposals
The document submitted to the Unicode Consortium that introduced this character.
Related
Frequently asked questions
- What does π¦ββ¬ mean?
- Black bird is a zero-width-joiner sequence combining π¦ bird and β¬ black large square. Part of the Animals & Nature group, animal bird subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 15.0, released in 2022. It is commonly tagged black bird, animal, beak, bird, black and caw.
- What is the Unicode code point for π¦ββ¬?
- Black bird is not a single character. It is written as U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B β a sequence of 3 code points that displays as one emoji.
- When was π¦ββ¬ added to Unicode?
- π¦ββ¬ was approved as part of Emoji 15.0 and released in 2022, under Unicode 15.0.
- Why does π¦ββ¬ look different on my phone?
- Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point, so π¦ββ¬ changes depending on where you see it. This page compares 68 renderings, including Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft.
- What is π¦ββ¬ called in other languages?
- Unicode's CLDR publishes a name for it in 9 other languages, including Ψ·Ψ§Ψ¦Ψ± Ψ£Ψ³ΩΨ― in Arabic, schwarzer Vogel in German and pΓ‘jaro negro in Spanish.
- What category is π¦ββ¬ in?
- π¦ββ¬ belongs to Unicode's Animals & Nature group, in the animal bird subgroup.