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Chicken face emoji

🐔 Chicken

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🐔 Emoji meaning

Cowardice, expressions, Chinese zodiac sign.

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🐔 Meaning

In general, stands for fear and cowardice (“You are a chicken“). Appears in many phrases: “To get up with the chickens“, “To dance the funky chicken“, “To feel like a spring chicken“ or “to chicken out“. Chinese zodiac sign in the horoscope.

Examples

What a chicken! 🐔
Are you backing out again? 🐔
I'm such a chicken when it comes to horror movies. 🐔

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Chicken

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Hatching chick vs chicken; both part of chicken lifecycle, used interchangeably around Easter or farms.

Intensity Variant

Chicken

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Chicken vs rooster; comb and tail differences are subtle, both appear as chickens.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Chicken” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal + ornithology

In the release of Emoji 4.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ bird

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ chicken

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Comments

(1) Comment

Monique 2/22/2026
It can also mean “cock“.