🦚 Peacock

The 🦚 Peacock emoji belongs to the birds, filed by Unicode under Animals & Nature. In practice it comes up around animal, bird, colorful and ornithology. Unicode also files it under ostentatious, peahen, pretty and proud, which shows how widely it is read.

🦚 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. The character has been part of the standard since 2018 (Emoji 11.0). Its code point is U+1F99A.

• 🦚 on its own already flags the topic: animal.
• Fits messages about animal, bird, colorful and ornithology.
• Often seen near 🦩 Flamingo, 🪶 Feather and 🦜 Parrot.

The peacock is India’s national bird and the mount of the war god Kartikeya; Krishna wears a peacock feather in his hair. In Christian iconography it stood for immortality, since its flesh was believed not to decay.

In parts of Europe, by contrast, peacock feathers indoors are held to bring bad luck – a superstition spread through English theatre. Colloquially the peacock everywhere means vanity.

• 🦚🦢 – Peacock and Swan
• 🦚🦩 – Peacock with Flamingo
• 🦚🪿 – Peacock plus Goose
• 🦚🐦‍⬛ – Peacock and Black Bird
• 🦚🪽 – Peacock with Wing
• 🦚🦤 – Peacock plus Dodo
• 🦚🐦‍🔥 – Peacock and Phoenix
• 🦚🪶 – Peacock with Feather

Easy to mix up with 🦩 Flamingo, 🪶 Feather or 🦜 Parrot. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.