What 🦚 means
Admiration or showing off, depending on the words around it. If someone sends you 🦚, read the accompanying message before deciding whether they're applauding your style or teasing your strut.
Playful, decorative, a little theatrical.
On your own boast, 🦚 can make confidence sound like vanity.
What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsAfter a compliment
You look striking.
After the sender's good news
A little self-celebration.
Beside fabric or design talk
Peacock-like colours or feather patterns.
Replying to a boast
A possible “okay, showoff.”
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2Suggestion: praise a dazzling outfit.
Suggestion: an eye-roll at someone's showing off.
Worth knowing
- 🦚 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🦚 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🦚
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “peacock”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “peacock”.
Chat apps
:peacock:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🦚Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🦚
HTML hex
🦚
CSS content
content: "\1F99A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A6%9A
1
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.