🦤️ Dodo emoji

What is 🦤️ called?

🦤️ is called the Dodo emoji.

What does 🦤️ mean?

🦤 is officially named dodo. It represents a dodo, showing the extinct flightless bird that once lived on Mauritius. The dodo represents extinction, lost species, conservation lessons, and the sobering reminder of how human activity can lead to the permanent loss of unique species.

Use it for literal references to dodo, and for extinction, lost species, conservation lessons, rarity, historical loss. The surrounding words should make literal, figurative, cultural, or seasonal intent clear. Related choices include 🦉 Owl and 🪶 Feather.

Other meanings

It can mean extinction, lost species, conservation lessons, rarity, historical loss. Context determines whether the message is literal, symbolic, culinary, seasonal, humorous, or cultural.

Example Usage

That technology is as extinct as the dodo 🦤

Learning more about the dodo today 🦤

More details

Officially named dodo. Its code point is U+1F9A4. It was introduced in Emoji 13.0. The dodo was a flightless bird native to Mauritius and is extinct; using “dodo” as an insult is unrelated to the animal.

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Visual description

A dodo bird with characteristic large beak, rounded body, and flightless appearance of this extinct species.

The dodo was a flightless bird native to Mauritius and is extinct; using “dodo” as an insult is unrelated to the animal. Colours, proportions, pose, and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.