U+1F9A9 "🦩" Flamingo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦩
U+1F9A9 "🦩" Flamingo is a pictographic representation of the tall, pink wading bird known for its distinctive curved beak, long legs, and tendency to stand on one leg. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 12.0, this character is used in digital communication to symbolize tropical environments, exotic wildlife, grace, and sometimes kitsch or retro aesthetic themes. Its inclusion reflects the growing demand for emoji that represent a wider variety of animal species beyond traditional domestic or commonly recognized creatures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9A9 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Flamingo |
| 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 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udda9 |