U+1F986 "🦆" Duck Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦆
U+1F986 "🦆" Duck is a pictorial representation of a duck, typically depicted in a standing or swimming posture, and is part of the Emoticons and Emoji block within the Unicode standard, introduced in 2016. It is widely used in digital communication to symbolize the animal itself, as well as concepts like quacking, waterfowl, nature, or metaphorical expressions such as "lame duck" or "sitting duck." The emoji features a yellow or brown body with a distinctive bill, and it can appear differently across platforms, with some designs showing a duck facing left or right. As a standard encoded character, it ensures cross platform consistency for sending and receiving the duck image in text messages, social media posts, and other digital contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F986 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Duck |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🦆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🦆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F986 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd86 |