U+1F989 "🦉" Owl Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦉
U+1F989 "🦉" Owl is a pictographic representation of the bird of prey known for its large eyes, nocturnal habits, and association with wisdom in many cultures, particularly in ancient Greek mythology where it symbolized Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Enacted as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to the Emoji 3.0 standard, this character is commonly used in digital communication to convey intelligence, mystery, or a love of learning, as well as to represent the animal itself in nature or wildlife discussions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F989 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Owl |
| 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 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F989 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd89 |