U+1F986 · emoji since 2016
The duck floats calmly while paddling furiously, which makes it the internet's favorite metaphor for keeping it together.
It also quacks for pond walks, rubber duck debugging, and absurdist meme energy. Calm above, chaos below.
In texting, 🦆 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🦆 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Duck emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the duck emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🦆 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.