🐔 Chicken

A chicken, a bird used for its meat and eggs. Generally depicted as the white head of a chicken (hen or rooster) looking left, with a yellow beak, red comb on its head, and red wattle on its neck.

May be consumed in the form of 🍗 Poultry Leg. Not to be confused with the full-bodied 🐓 Rooster, though their applications overlap. Also may be used for metaphorical senses of chicken (e.g., “coward”).

See also 🐣 Hatching Chick, 🐤 Baby Chick, and 🐥 Front-Facing Baby Chick.

Available as an Apple Animoji.

Google’s design features a full chicken, Twitter’s chicken head is looking straight ahead. Microsoft’s chicken was previously yellow, Samsung’s facing forward; Facebook’s design once featured a full, brown bird.

Chicken was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.