This emoji shows a badminton racquet and a shuttlecock (aka the birdie) locked in a tiny, feathery duel. On Apple devices, it’s a crisp blue racquet with white stringing, tilted at a jaunty angle, and a white shuttlecock with a red band zipping toward it—clean gradients, three-quarter view, very “sports catalog meets iMessage.” It screams light-footed speed, backyard bragging rights, and that one PE class where everyone discovered cardio the hard way.
Use it to call for a match, humblebrag about your 10,000-step rally, or make a ‘smash’ pun when you’re about to obliterate tasks: “Deadline? Smashed.” It’s flirty in a “wanna rally?” way, spicy in a “your take wouldn’t clear the net” roast, and meme-friendly for anything feathered-chaos-adjacent. Sports Twitter drops it during Olympic or big-tournament hype; group chats use it for office Olympics and BBQ showdowns where the rules are loose and the line calls looser. In short: the birdie is tiny, but the drama is large.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 9 update.
