# 🦆 Duck emoji

🦆 Duck is an emoji in the birds set of Animals & nature. It was added in Emoji 3.0 in 2016. Related words: animal, bird and ornithology.

- Emoji: 🦆
- Unicode name: duck
- Code points: U+1F986
- Category: Animals & nature, Birds
- Added: Emoji 3.0 (2016)
- GitHub shortcode: :duck:
- Keywords: animal, bird, duck, ornithology
- Page: https://emojichart.com/duck-emoji

## What it means

With a flat bill, this duck is seen in profile. People use it for ducks, ponds, ducklings, quacking, and cute or silly moods, as well as nature walks and pond scenes.

## How to type 🦆

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “duck”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “duck”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “duck”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “duck”.
- GitHub: Type :duck: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | pato | ave, pato |
| Français (fr) | canard | animal, canard, coin-coin, oiseau |
| Deutsch (de) | Ente | Ente, Tier, Vogel |
| Italiano (it) | anatra | animale, ornitologia, papera, uccello |
| Português (pt) | pato | animal, pássaro, pato |
| Nederlands (nl) | eend | dier, eend, vogel, woerd |
| Svenska (sv) | and | and, fågel |
| Polski (pl) | kaczka | kaczka, kaczor, ptak, woda, zwierzę |
| Türkçe (tr) | ördek | hayvan, kuş, ördek, suna |
| Русский (ru) | утка | птица, селезень, утка |
| Українська (uk) | качка | качка, птах |
| Ελληνικά (el) | πάπια | ζώο, ορνιθολογία, πάπια, πουλί, πτηνό |
| العربية (ar) | بطة | بطة, حيوان, طائر, طير |
| עברית (he) | ברווז | בעל חיים, ברווז, עוף |
| فارسی (fa) | مرغابی | پرنده, مرغابی |
| हिन्दी (hi) | बतख | पक्षी, पशु, बतख |
| বাংলা (bn) | হাঁস | পশুপাখি, পাখি, হাঁস |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | bebek | bebek, binatang, burung, hewan, ornitologi |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | vịt | chim, động vật, vịt |
| ไทย (th) | เป็ด | นก, ปักษี, เป็ด, สัตว์ |
| 日本語 (ja) | カモ | カモ, 動物, 鳥 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 오리 | 동물, 새, 오리, 조류 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 鸭子 | 鸟, 鸭, 鸭子 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 鴨子 | 鳥, 鴨, 鴨子 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): eend
- Akan (ak): dabodabo
- Albanian (sq): rosak
- Amharic (am): ዳክዬ
- Anii (blo): kpakpafɩʊ
- Armenian (hy): բադ
- Assamese (as): হাঁহ
- Azerbaijani (az): ördək
- Bashkir (ba): өйрәк
- Basque (eu): ahatea
- Belarusian (be): качка
- Bosnian (bs): patka
- Breton (br): houad
- Bulgarian (bg): патица
- Burmese (my): ဘဲ
- Cantonese (yue): 鴨
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 鸭
- Catalan (ca): ànec
- Cherokee (chr): ᎧᏬᏄ
- Chuvash (cv): кӑвакал
- Croatian (hr): patka
- Czech (cs): kachna
- Danish (da): and
- Estonian (et): part
- Faroese (fo): dunna
- Filipino (fil): bibi
- Finnish (fi): sorsa
- Galician (gl): pato
- Georgian (ka): იხვი
- Gujarati (gu): બતક
- Hausa (ha): agwagwa
- Hungarian (hu): kacsa
- Icelandic (is): önd
- Igbo (ig): udele igbo
- Irish (ga): lacha
- Javanese (jv): bebek
- Kalaallisut (kl): and
- Kannada (kn): ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ
- Kazakh (kk): үйрек
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): ۇيرەك
- Khmer (km): ទា
- Kinyarwanda (rw): igishuhe
- Konkani (kok): बदक
- Kyrgyz (ky): өрдөк
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): Patax
- Lao (lo): ເປັດ
- Latvian (lv): pīle
- Lithuanian (lt): antis
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): kacka
- Luxembourgish (lb): Int
- Macedonian (mk): патка
- Malay (ms): itik
- Malayalam (ml): താറാവ്
- Maltese (mt): papra
- Marathi (mr): बदक
- Mongolian (mn): нугас
- Māori (mi): parera
- Nepali (ne): हाँस
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Dọk
- Northern Sotho (nso): lepidibidi
- Norwegian (no): and
- Odia (or): ବତକ
- Oromo (om): daakiyee
- Pashto (ps): هيلۍ
- Punjabi (pa): ਬੱਤਖ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): بطخ
- Quechua (qu): pili
- Romanian (ro): rață
- Romansh (rm): anda
- Sardinian (sc): anade
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): tunnag
- Serbian (sr): патка
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): patka
- Shan (shn): ပဵတ်း
- Sindhi (sd): بدڪ
- Sinhala (si): තාරාව
- Slovak (sk): kačka
- Slovenian (sl): raca
- Somali (so): muwaata
- Swahili (sw): bata
- Tajik (tg): мурғобӣ
- Tamil (ta): வாத்து
- Telugu (te): బాతు
- Tigrinya (ti): ደርሆ ማይ
- Tongan (to): pato
- Tswana (tn): pidipidi
- Turkmen (tk): ördek
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): kačka
- Urdu (ur): بطخ
- Uyghur (ug): ئۆردەك
- Uzbek (uz): o‘rdak
- Welsh (cy): hwyaden
- Wolof (wo): kanaara
- Xhosa (xh): idada
- Yoruba (yo): Pẹ́pẹ́yẹ
- Yoruba (Benin) (yo-BJ): Pɛ́pɛ́yɛ
- Zulu (zu): idada

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F986` |
| HTML | `🦆` |
| CSS | `\1F986` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F986}` |
| Python | `\U0001F986` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F A6 86` |
| UTF-16 | `D83E DD86` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%A6%86` |

## Questions

### What does the 🦆 duck emoji mean?

With a flat bill, this duck is seen in profile. People use it for ducks, ponds, ducklings, quacking, and cute or silly moods, as well as nature walks and pond scenes.

### How do I type the 🦆 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “duck”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :duck:.

### When was the 🦆 emoji added?

🦆 was added in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🦆?

U+1F986. In HTML you can write 🦆, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F986}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/duck-emoji