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🦉 Owl

Unicode: U+1F989

Description

An owl, the hooting, large-eyed bird. Depicted as a brown owl with its head facing forward. Shown with large, round, gold-rimmed eyes, talons, tucked wings, and horn-like tufts of feathers. May be used to represent wisdom. Once popularly used in connection with the hip-hop artist Drake. Microsoft’s owl previously resembled a barn owl, Samsung’s was purple.

Image Variants

Owl 3D

3D

Owl Color

Color

Owl Flat

Flat

Owl High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:3.0
Unicode Version:9.0

Keywords

birdowlwise

Shortcodes

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Additional Information

Category:Supplemental Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:

An owl, shown facing forward, with two large eyes and a yellow beak. Owl was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 http://emojipedia.org/owl/

Adjectives:
  • Having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
Verbs:
  • To become wise.
Nouns:
  • Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
  • Ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
  • Deep understanding of or knowledge of a subject
  • The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
  • Wisdom is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight.
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  • Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
  • Birds are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates.
  • A winged, egg-laying, vertebrate animal.
  • Any of the bipedal, warm-blooded vertebrates that lay eggs having wings which, for most species, enables them to fly.
  • Feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic, egg-laying, vertebrate animal
  • Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous vertebrate animals characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones.