# 🦃 Turkey emoji

🦃 Turkey is an emoji in the birds set of Animals & nature. It was added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Related words: bird, gobble and thanksgiving.

- Emoji: 🦃
- Unicode name: turkey
- Code points: U+1F983
- Category: Animals & nature, Birds
- Added: Emoji 1.0 (2015)
- GitHub shortcode: :turkey:
- Keywords: bird, gobble, thanksgiving, turkey
- Page: https://emojichart.com/turkey-emoji

## What it means

With a fan of tail feathers, this large bird is a turkey. It is used for turkeys and, especially, for Thanksgiving dinner and holiday meals in the United States.

## How to type 🦃

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

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | pavo | ave, pavo |
| Français (fr) | dindon | action de grâces, animal, dinde, dindon, oiseau, thanksgiving, volaille |
| Deutsch (de) | Truthahn | Geflügel, Pute, Thanksgiving, Truthahn |
| Italiano (it) | tacchino | animale, giorno del ringraziamento, ringraziamento, tacchino, Thanksgiving |
| Português (pt) | peru | animal, ave, peru, peru de natal |
| Nederlands (nl) | kalkoen | dier, gevogelte, kalkoen |
| Svenska (sv) | kalkon | fågel, kalkon |
| Polski (pl) | indyk | indyk, ptak, zwierzę |
| Türkçe (tr) | hindi | hayvan, hindi, kuş, şükran günü |
| Русский (ru) | индейка | благодарение, благодарения, индейка, индюк, крылья, птица |
| Українська (uk) | індик | індик, індичка, птах |
| Ελληνικά (el) | γαλοπούλα | γαλοπούλα, ευχαριστίες, πτηνό |
| العربية (ar) | ديك رومي | حبش, دجاح, ديك رومي, رومي, عيد الشكر, كركرة |
| עברית (he) | תרנגול הודו | בעל חיים, עוף, תרנגול הודו |
| فارسی (fa) | بوقلمون | بوقلمون, گوشت بوقلمون |
| हिन्दी (hi) | टर्की | टर्की, डकोसना |
| বাংলা (bn) | টার্কি ,টার্কি মোরগ | টার্কি, টার্কি ,টার্কি মোরগ, টার্কি মুরগী, টার্কি মোরগ, পশুপাখি |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | kalkun | binatang, burung, hewan, kalkun, thanksgiving |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | gà tây | chim, gà tây, tạ ơn |
| ไทย (th) | ไก่งวง | ไก่งวง, สัตว์, สัตว์ปีก |
| 日本語 (ja) | 七面鳥 | ターキー, 七面鳥, 動物, 鳥 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 칠면조 | 새, 추수감사절, 칠면조, 터키 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 火鸡 | 感恩节, 火鸡 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 火雞 | 感恩節, 火雞 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): kalkoen
- Akan (ak): Kokrokoko
- Albanian (sq): gjel deti
- Amharic (am): ቆቅ
- Anii (blo): tolotolo
- Armenian (hy): հնդկահավ
- Assamese (as): টাৰ্কি
- Azerbaijani (az): hinduşka
- Bashkir (ba): күркә
- Basque (eu): indioilarra
- Belarusian (be): індычка
- Bosnian (bs): ćurka
- Breton (br): kog-Spagn
- Bulgarian (bg): пуйка
- Burmese (my): ကြက်ဆင်
- Canadian French (fr-CA): dinde
- Cantonese (yue): 火雞
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 火鸡
- Catalan (ca): gall dindi
- Cherokee (chr): ᎬᏂ
- Chuvash (cv): инде хӗрарӑмӗ
- Croatian (hr): puran
- Czech (cs): krocan
- Danish (da): kalkun
- Estonian (et): kalkun
- Faroese (fo): kalkun
- Filipino (fil): pabo
- Finnish (fi): kalkkuna
- Galician (gl): pavo
- Georgian (ka): ინდაური
- Gujarati (gu): ટર્કી
- Hausa (ha): talo-talo
- Hungarian (hu): pulyka
- Icelandic (is): kalkúnn
- Igbo (ig): torotoro
- Irish (ga): turcaí
- Javanese (jv): kalkun
- Kalaallisut (kl): kalkun
- Kannada (kn): ಟಿರ್ಕಿ ಕೋಳಿ
- Kazakh (kk): күркетауық
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): كۇركەتاۋىق
- Khmer (km): មាន់តួកគី
- Kinyarwanda (rw): turukiya
- Konkani (kok): टर्की
- Kurdish (ku): elok
- Kyrgyz (ky): үндүк
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): No’s
- Lao (lo): ໄກ່ງວງ
- Latvian (lv): tītars
- Lithuanian (lt): kalakutas
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): turk
- Luxembourgish (lb): Schnuddelhong
- Macedonian (mk): мисирка
- Malay (ms): ayam belanda
- Malayalam (ml): ടർക്കി കോഴി
- Maltese (mt): dundjan
- Marathi (mr): टर्की
- Mongolian (mn): цацагт хяруул
- Māori (mi): korukoru
- Nepali (ne): टर्की
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Tọkí
- Northern Sotho (nso): turkey
- Norwegian (no): kalkun
- Odia (or): ଟର୍କୀ
- Oromo (om): turkeeyii
- Pashto (ps): پيل مرغ
- Punjabi (pa): ਟਰਕੀ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): ترکی
- Quechua (qu): pavo
- Romanian (ro): curcan
- Romansh (rm): galdin
- Sardinian (sc): dindu
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): eun-Frangach
- Serbian (sr): ћурка
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): ćurka
- Shan (shn): ၵႆႇၸၢင်ႉ
- Sindhi (sd): ٽرڪي
- Sinhala (si): කළුකුමා
- Slovak (sk): moriak
- Slovenian (sl): puran
- Somali (so): diikh rumiin
- Swahili (sw): bata mzinga
- Tajik (tg): мурғи марҷон
- Tamil (ta): வான்கோழி
- Telugu (te): టర్కీ కోడి
- Tigrinya (ti): ታኪን
- Tongan (to): pīpī
- Tswana (tn): thekhi
- Turkmen (tk): hindi towugy
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): trutak
- Urdu (ur): ٹرکی
- Uyghur (ug): ياۋا توخۇ
- Uzbek (uz): kurka
- Welsh (cy): twrci
- Wolof (wo): koppin
- Xhosa (xh): i-turkey
- Yoruba (yo): Tólòtólò
- Zulu (zu): ithekhi

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F983` |
| HTML | `🦃` |
| CSS | `\1F983` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F983}` |
| Python | `\U0001F983` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F A6 83` |
| UTF-16 | `D83E DD83` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%A6%83` |

## Questions

### What does the 🦃 turkey emoji mean?

With a fan of tail feathers, this large bird is a turkey. It is used for turkeys and, especially, for Thanksgiving dinner and holiday meals in the United States.

### How do I type the 🦃 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “turkey”. 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 :turkey:.

### When was the 🦃 emoji added?

🦃 was added in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015.

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

U+1F983. In HTML you can write 🦃, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F983}.

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