Duck emoji
🦆 is a duck and an autocorrect joke. Copy it here with the chicks it is confused with.
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What the duck emoji means
🦆 (duck, Emoji 5.0) is the mallard: ponds, “feeding the ducks”, rubber-duck jokes, and the autocorrect gag where “duck” replaces a swear word. 🐥 and 🐤 are yellow chicks, which people sometimes call ducklings, and 💛 keeps the yellow theme. It has no variants and displays on anything updated since 2017.
Unicode name: duck · U+1F986 · Emoji 3.0 (2016) · group: Animals & Nature.
How people use it
- Autocorrect joke: 🦆 for the swear
- Ponds and parks: 🦆🌊
- Rubber duck: programmers’ debugging joke
- Cute: 🐥🦆
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| duckU+1F986 | Duck; the autocorrect joke | Mallard | |
| front-facing baby chick / baby chickU+1F425 · U+1F424 | Chicks | Yellow | |
| swanU+1F9A2 | Elegant | ||
| chickenU+1F414 | See the chicken emoji guide |
Chat examples
Real messages with 🦆, and a reply that fits.
🦆 ducks at the pond
feed them
🦆 duck face
😂
🐥 tiny duckling
aww
Questions people ask
What does 🦆 mean in a text?
Usually a joke replacing a swear word, from autocorrect changing it to “duck”. Otherwise, a duck.
Is there a duckling emoji?
Not officially; people use the chicks 🐥 🐤.
About this guide
Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.
