U+1F426 U+200D U+1F525
Phoenix
About
Phoenix is a zero-width-joiner sequence combining 🐦 bird and 🔥 fire. Part of the Animals & Nature group, animal bird subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 15.1, released in 2023.
Platform renderings
10 platforms shown using your device's own emoji font. Their artwork is proprietary and this site does not redistribute it.
Timeline
2016 — 2026Showing 51 of 51 events through 2026
- 2016First render
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- 2022First render
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- 2023First render
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- 2023First render
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- 2023Unicode
Added in Emoji 15.1
Introduced in Emoji 15.1
- 2023First render
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- 2023Redesign
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- 2023Redesign
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- 2024First render
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- 2024First render
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- 2024First render
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- 2024First render
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- 2024Redesign
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- 2024Redesign
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- 2024First render
First appeared on Microsoft 3D Fluent
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- 2024First render
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- 2024First render
First appeared on Microsoft Teams
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- 2024Redesign
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- 2024Redesign
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- 2024First render
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- 2024Redesign
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- 2024Redesign
Date it reached devices. AOSP source dropped 2024-09-03.
- 2024First render
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- 2024First render
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- 2025Redesign
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Microsoft 3D Fluent Fluent 16.0
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025First render
First appeared on Noto Animated Emoji
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025Redesign
Microsoft Windows 11 24h2 August 2025 Update
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025First render
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2026Redesign
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Encodings
- UTF-8
F0 9F 90 A6 E2 80 8D F0 9F 94 A5- UTF-8 escaped
\xF0\x9F\x90\xA6\xE2\x80\x8D\xF0\x9F\x94\xA5- UTF-16
D83D DC26 200D D83D DD25- UTF-32
0001F426 0000200D 0001F525- HTML decimal
🐦‍🔥- HTML hex
🐦‍🔥- CSS
\01F426\00200D\01F525- JavaScript
\u{1F426}\u{200D}\u{1F525}- JS surrogateFor pre-ES2015 targets
\uD83D\uDC26\u200D\uD83D\uDD25- Python
\U0001F426\u200D\U0001F525- URL encoded
%F0%9F%90%A6%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%94%A5- Base64
8J+QpuKAjfCflKU=
Unicode proposals
The document submitted to the Unicode Consortium that introduced this character.
Related
Frequently asked questions
- What does 🐦🔥 mean?
- Phoenix is a zero-width-joiner sequence combining 🐦 bird and 🔥 fire. Part of the Animals & Nature group, animal bird subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 15.1, released in 2023. It is commonly tagged phoenix, ascend, ascension, emerge, fantasy and firebird.
- What is the Unicode code point for 🐦🔥?
- Phoenix is not a single character. It is written as U+1F426 U+200D U+1F525 — a sequence of 3 code points that displays as one emoji.
- When was 🐦🔥 added to Unicode?
- 🐦🔥 was approved as part of Emoji 15.1 and released in 2023, under Unicode 15.1.
- Why does 🐦🔥 look different on my phone?
- Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point, so 🐦🔥 changes depending on where you see it. This page compares 50 renderings, including Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft.
- What is 🐦🔥 called in other languages?
- Unicode's CLDR publishes a name for it in 9 other languages, including العنقاء in Arabic, Phönix in German and fénix in Spanish.
- What category is 🐦🔥 in?
- 🐦🔥 belongs to Unicode's Animals & Nature group, in the animal bird subgroup.