🦆 Meaning – Duck Emoji

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The image of a duck in profile is the emoji symbol for this specie of bird. It is generally used in reference to birds that cannot fly, but it is also used for birds in general. Duck Emoji can mean “I saw some ducks bathing in the lake yesterday!” or “All the birds are gone - clearly winter is coming!”.

The Duck Emoji appeared in 2016, and also known as the Duck Face Emoji.

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Duck Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F986
Unicode name: Duck
Category: Animals & Nature / Birds
Keywords: bird
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F986
Decimal HTML Entity: 🦆
Hex HTML Entity: 🦆
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83E 0xDD86
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck
Version: Unicode 9.0
Year: 2016 (see all emoji of 2016)

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🌐 Duck Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Ente	Vogel
Français	canard	animal, oiseau
Русский	утка	птица, селезень
Español	pato	ave
Italiano	anatra	animale, uccello
Português	pato	pássaro
Polski	kaczka	ptak

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How to type Duck Emoji

There are number of methods to type Duck Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🦆 emoji

It's very easy to get Duck Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🦆 meaning and look at 🦆 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🦆 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.