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🦉 Owl
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🦉 Emoji meaning
Wisdom, night, superstition, spooky.
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🦉 Meaning
A symbol of wisdom. The nocturnal owl cannot shake off a negative superstition. In spooky scenes in movies you can often hear the characteristic call of the owl.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Owl vs bird; both avian shapes used for general bird topics, time-of-day nuance (night) may be ignored.
Intensity Variant
Eagle vs owl; both large birds of prey, silhouettes similar with spread wings or strong outlines.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Owl” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 .
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 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ owl + wise + bird
