Owl Emoji 🦉
Emoji Meaning
Owl is a predatory nocturnal bird. It is depicted as a brown-reddish owl with big round eyes of gold colour looking as if it is perching. The owl emoji may be used as a wisdom metaphor.
The symbol “Owl” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 9.0 in 2016. In 2016, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 3.0 and added to the “Bird” subcategory of the “Animals & Nature” category.
| Unicode Name | Owl |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Animal symbols |
| Unicode Version | 9.0 (2016) |
| Emoji Version | 3.0 (2016) |
| Emoji Category | Animals & Nature |
| Emoji Subcategory | Bird |
| Emoji Name | Owl |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F989 |
| Simple case change | 1F989 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F A6 89 | 240 159 166 137 | 4036994697 | 11110000 10011111 10100110 10001001 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3E DD 89 | 216 62 221 137 | 3627998601 | 11011000 00111110 11011101 10001001 |
| UTF-16LE | 3E D8 89 DD | 62 216 137 221 | 1054378461 | 00111110 11011000 10001001 11011101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F9 89 | 0 1 249 137 | 129417 | 00000000 00000001 11111001 10001001 |
| UTF-32LE | 89 F9 01 00 | 137 249 1 0 | 2314797312 | 10001001 11111001 00000001 00000000 |
