• tenth of the signs of the Asian zodiac = cock
The rooster emoji struts in with big “rise and grind” energy—perfect for early-bird bragging, obnoxiously chipper good-morning texts, or dunking on a friend who set a 5 a.m. alarm. It pops up in memes as the living, crowing version of an alarm clock, and doubles as a cheeky stand-in for “cocky” confidence or spicy wordplay when you want to keep it PG. You’ll also see it during the Chinese Year of the Rooster and in posts nodding to the Gallic rooster, a proud symbol associated with France and its sports teams. Farmcore feeds, sunrise coffee snaps, and “new beginnings” captions all love this bird.
On Apple/iOS, the rooster is a full-bodied white bird in left-facing profile with a bright red comb and wattle, a sunny yellow beak, and orange legs mid-strut—like it’s about to audition for a barnyard catwalk. The tail feathers curve back in soft gray tones, and the stance screams “I own this yard.” People use it sarcastically when someone texts at dawn, dramatically to signal a wake-up call, or flirtatiously as a playful “feeling cocky” wink. Bonus: it’s the go-to for rural vibes, kitchen garden posts, and that one friend who won’t stop crowing about their 10,000 steps by breakfast.
A rooster is a male chicken. A male chicken is easily identifiable by its red "comb" on top of its head and red "wattle" under its chin. Both the comb and the wattle are used to get attention from female chickens (hens). Roosters are also well known for their crowing (the cock-a-doodle-doo sound that they make). This emoji can be showy, territorial, protective and aggressive.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 274 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :rooster: |
| Keywords | Rooster, Cockerel, Cock, Male, Cock-a-doodle-doo, Crowing |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - 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) | 1f413 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F413 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128019 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x93 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 93 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 223 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC13 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc13 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F413 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F413 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128019 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F413" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\x93" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC13" |
