The owl emoji is the internet’s resident night shift supervisor: wise, wide‑eyed, and silently clocking your 2 a.m. choices. People drop it to say they’re up late, to hint at secret knowledge, or to give “I’m watching… respectfully” energy. It swings between cozy academia (books, libraries, tweed jackets) and spooky season (foggy woods, Halloween, whooo sounds) with ease. Expect it in replies to galaxy-brain takes, conspiracy threads, or whenever someone claims to have receipts. Harry Potter vibes show up too—think messenger owls and magical midnight mail, even if this bird isn’t snowy Hedwig.
On Apple/iOS, the owl faces forward with symmetrical precision, warm brown feathers, a creamy chest, and gigantic yellow‑orange eyes with black pupils that practically glow. It grips a short twig with tiny talons, sports a small hooked beak, and has soft gradient shading that makes it look alert but friendly—like a wise professor who just heard your hot take. In texts, it can be playful (“night owl mode”), a low‑key lurk, or a cheeky way to say “I see everything.” It’s also great for dramatic pauses, late‑night study grind posts, or ironic flirtiness when you slide into DMs at owl o’clock.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 229 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🦉 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🦉 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🦉 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🦉 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f989 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F989 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129417 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x89 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 89 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 211 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD89 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd89 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56713 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F989 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F989 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129417 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F989" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\x89" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD89" |
