U+1FAB9 "🪹" Empty Nest Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🪹
U+1FAB9 "🪹" Empty Nest is a pictographic symbol representing a bird's nest that is vacant, typically depicted as a woven, cup shaped structure made of twigs and branches with no eggs or birds present. It is used to convey themes of vacancy, departure, the end of a period of nurturing, or the concept of an empty nest in a literal or metaphorical sense, such as when children have left home. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of the Emoji 14.0 update under the Animals and Nature category, providing a digital means to express feelings of quietness, transition, or new beginnings after a period of active care.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAB9 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Empty Nest |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| 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 0xAA 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDEB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FAB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udeb9 |