What does 🪶 Feather mean?
A single soft feather, often brown or reddish. It suggests lightness, delicacy and gentleness, like feeling light as a feather. It also evokes old-fashioned quill writing, poetry and calligraphy. A feather in your cap means a proud achievement. For many Indigenous cultures feathers carry deep spiritual meaning, so it appears in respectful cultural contexts as well.
🪶 Feather is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category (birds), added in Emoji 13.0 in 2020. People use it in messages about bird, flight, light and plumage.
Example messages
🪶 Feather on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Feather looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Feather emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🪶 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :feather:.
When was the Feather emoji added?
🪶 Feather was added in Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🪶 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Feather. The underlying code (U+1FAB6) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.