🦉 Owl

🦉 Owl is one of the birds in Unicode's Animals & Nature group. It usually appears in messages about animal, bird, ornithology and wise.

🦉 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. It joined the standard with Emoji 3.0 in 2016, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F989.

• A single 🦉 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about animal, bird, ornithology and wise.
• Often seen near 🦢 Swan, 🦤 Dodo and 🦆 Duck.

Across Europe and North America the owl stands for wisdom – by way of the Greek goddess Athena, whose companion it was and who still appears on ancient Athenian coins. Hence the phrase about carrying owls to Athens.

In many other cultures the same bird means the opposite. In parts of India, Africa and Central America an owl’s call is an omen of death, and in rural Japan it long counted as a bird of ill fortune. If you send the emoji as a compliment about someone’s intelligence, be aware that it does not land that way everywhere.

• 🦉🕊️ – Owl and Dove
• 🦉🦢 – Owl with Swan
• 🦉🦩 – Owl plus Flamingo
• 🦉🪽 – Owl and Wing
• 🦉🦤 – Owl with Dodo
• 🦉🐧 – Owl plus Penguin
• 🦉🪶 – Owl and Feather
• 🦉🐦️ – Owl with Bird

Easy to mix up with 🦢 Swan, 🦤 Dodo or 🦆 Duck. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.