Emojion🐦⬛ black bird
Meaning
Added in 2022, this emoji quickly became a staple in gothic and dark aesthetic posts across English-speaking communities. Beyond literal crows and black birds, it's used to signal bad omens, dark humor, and a sharp or ironic edge.
Keywords: animal, beak, bird, black, caw, corvid, crow, ornithology, raven, rook
💡 Did you know?
Added in Unicode 15.0 (2022) as a ZWJ sequence of 🐦 (bird) and ⬛ (black large square). Before this, no dedicated crow or raven emoji existed — its addition answered a long-standing user request.
💡 Did you know?
something feels off today 🐦⬛
The black bird's foreboding image layers onto a vague sense of unease — one of its most natural fits.
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