Birds, chicks, ducks, penguins and owls typed in text. Tap any bird to copy it.
The beak is what makes a text bird. Most bird kaomoji put the Greek capital theta Θ in the middle of the face, a round shape with a line across it that looks like a closed beak. Chicks swap it for the smaller Cyrillic ө, penguins use the rounded ⊝ or flap their wings with < and >, and ducks spread ε and ϶ on either side as wings. Owls skip the beak almost entirely and let two big eyes do the work, as in {O,o}. Each bird here is plain text that pastes into chats and captions. For bird pictures such as 🐦 🐤 🦆 🐧 🦉, see the animal emoji page.
The Θ beak stays in the centre and the eyes and wings change around it.
Arms become wings: ＼ ／ and ヾ ノ lift up on each side.
Chicks have the small ө beak; the duck shapes are drawn side-on.
Penguins hold their flippers out with < >; owls are all eyes.
It is the Greek capital letter theta (U+0398). Its oval with a bar across the middle looks like a closed beak seen from the front, so (・Θ・) reads as a small bird.
Use ⊝ (circled minus, U+229D) for a round penguin beak, as in （・⊝・）, or hold the arms out stiffly with < and > around the face, as in <(￣︶￣)>.
{O,o} is the classic one: the curly braces are the feathered head, O and o are the big eyes and the comma is the small hooked beak. Swap the eyes to {o,O} for a wink.
The UltraTextGen kaomoji generator filters the parts by mood, then lets you swap the outline, eyes and mouth and add cheeks or arms, keeping the left and right sides matched. Every part is plain Unicode text, so the face pastes wherever you are typing.
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