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Duck emoji: duck 🦆
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🦆 is a duck and an autocorrect joke. Copy it here with the chicks it is confused with.

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A little context

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.

IN A MESSAGEwhat the actual 🦆

How people use it

  • Autocorrect joke: 🦆 for the swear
  • Ponds and parks: 🦆🌊
  • Rubber duck: programmers’ debugging joke
  • Cute: 🐥🦆

Compare the options

EmojiNameUse it forWatch out for
duckU+1F986Duck; the autocorrect jokeMallard
front-facing baby chick / baby chickU+1F425 · U+1F424ChicksYellow
swanU+1F9A2SwanElegant
chickenU+1F414ChickenSee the chicken emoji guide

Chat examples

Real messages with 🦆, and a reply that fits.

  1. 🦆 ducks at the pond

    feed them

  2. 🦆 duck face

    😂

  3. 🐥 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.

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