A chicken, a bird used for its meat and eggs. Generally depicted as the white head of a chicken (hen or rooster) looking left, with a yellow beak, red comb on its head, and red wattle on its neck.

May be used for metaphorical senses of chicken (e.g., “coward”). Can also be used to represent a bride-to-be as per the term "hen do", aka. a bachelorette party.

Twitter’s chicken head is looking straight ahead. Microsoft’s chicken was previously yellow, while Samsung’s faced forward; Facebook’s design once featured a full, brown bird, while Google’s design previously featured a full bodied chicken. Available as an Apple Animoji.

May be consumed in the form of 🍗 Poultry Leg. Not to be confused with the full-bodied 🐓 Rooster, though their applications overlap. See also 🐣 Hatching Chick, 🐤 Baby Chick, and 🐥 Front-Facing Baby Chick.

This emoji also predates the inclusion and standardization of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by Softbank in 2000.

Chicken was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.