What does 🦩 Flamingo mean?
A bright pink flamingo standing on one long leg. It is pure tropical fun: pool parties, inflatable floats, Florida vacations and kitsch lawn decorations. It also suits a confident, flamboyant personality, and a group of flamingos is actually called a flamboyance. Yoga fans use it for one-legged balance poses. The bold pink makes it popular in summery and girly aesthetics.
🦩 Flamingo is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category (birds), added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. People use it in messages about animal, bird, flamboyant, ornithology and tropical.
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🦩 Flamingo on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Flamingo looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Flamingo 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 :flamingo:.
When was the Flamingo emoji added?
🦩 Flamingo was added in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. 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 Flamingo. The underlying code (U+1F9A9) 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.