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chicken

Chicken

The chicken emoji 🐔 usually means a chicken, farm life, or chicken for dinner. After a dare or someone backing out, it can mean “coward,” borrowing the English expression “chicken out.” Also called the hen emoji, this bird can be dinner talk or a dig—the message it answers makes the difference.

EmojiSince 2010
Also called
hen emoji · chicken head
Search it as
chicken emoji · chicken out · chicken emote · coward emoji
Type it as
:chicken:
Around since
2010 · Emoji 0.6
Shows up on
Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

What 🐔 means

Usually the bird or the food; after a challenge, “coward.” A recipe or a photo of a chicken coop keeps the reading literal.

English calls a scared person a “chicken,” says they “chicken out” when fear makes them back down, and calls a standoff where the first to swerve loses a “game of chicken.” A lone 🐔 after “I’m not doing that” puts that label on you. Friends may mean a tease; during an argument it has more bite. A cancellation by itself does not prove the sender is mocking you.

Harmless in dinner plans; pointed when it questions your courage.

Avoid a lone 🐔 after a serious refusal: it can sound like “coward.”

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
Beside a recipe or farm photo
The animal or chicken as food.
Reply to your refusal of a dare
“You’re scared”—friendly teasing or an insult, depending on the relationship.
British hen-do invite, as of 2026
A bride-to-be or her pre-wedding party: in Britain, that celebration is called a hen do.

Don't confuse it with

2
🐓
Rooster
Chicken vs rooster: 🐓 specifically depicts a male chicken. Choose it when the rooster, rather than poultry generally, is your subject.
🐤
Baby Chick
A small yellow chick: it emphasizes a baby bird or cuteness rather than an adult chicken.

Combination ideas

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Suggested pairing: chicken for dinner.
Suggested teasing pairing: “You chickened out and ran.”

Worth knowing

  • 🐔 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.

Questions people ask

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Is 🐔 the same as the Clash Royale chicken emote?

No. The game has its own chicken reaction. Player discussions, as of 2026, describe both taunting and silly spam; that does not give every 🐔 message the same meaning.

How to type 🐔

Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “chicken”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “chicken”.
Chat apps
:chicken:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.
HTML
🐔
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🐔
HTML hex
🐔
CSS content
content: "\1F414";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%90%94
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Animals & nature145 symbols

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