U+1F9A4 "🦤" Dodo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦤
U+1F9A4 "🦤" Dodo is a graphical symbol representing the extinct, flightless bird native to the island of Mauritius, which became a famous example of human-induced extinction in the 17th century. This emoji is often used in digital communication to reference extinction, uniqueness, history, or the broader theme of conservation and biodiversity loss. Its inclusion in Unicode highlights both cultural recognition of the dodo's story and the growing effort to represent historical and extinct species within modern text and messaging systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9A4 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Dodo |
| 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 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udda4 |