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🦢 Swan
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🦢 Emoji meaning
Loyalty, monogamous love, style, grace, purity, and transformation.
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🦢 Meaning
From the ugly duckling to the beautiful swan. The graceful bird with a long neck and brilliant white plumage appears in many myths and fairy tales. The swan commits itself to its partner for life. Symbolizes loyalty and purity.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Duck vs swan; white duck on some platforms looks similar to swan, both water birds.
Same Shape
Swan vs generic bird; elegant neck may be hard to notice at emoji size.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Swan” was approved as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 and added to Emoji 11.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ animal + duckling + ornithology + ugly
Keywords removed
- ugly duckling
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ bird + cygnet + swan + ugly duckling
