Duck Emoji Copy and Paste

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 23 emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. Duck is U+1F986, Emoji 3.0, the only entry with duck in its name, in the subgroup animal-bird, printed after the eagle and before the swan; goose is Emoji 15.0 and swan 11.0. The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). CLDR lists animal, bird, duck and ornithology for duck; it files exactly two emoji under duck (duck and goose); duckling, ugly and cygnet belong to swan alone, honk and gaggle to goose alone, newborn to no bird but front-facing baby chick, and plumage to feather alone; the three chick emoji are the only ones filed under chick; no emoji is filed under quack, pond, waterfowl, rubber, mallard, drake, ducky, duckie or webbed. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. The definitions, readings and variants of U+9D28, U+9E2D, U+9CE7, U+9DA9, U+9D1B and U+9D26 are the kDefinition, kMandarin, kJapaneseKun and kSimplifiedVariant fields of Unihan, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The descriptions of the hieroglyphs U+1316D, U+13177, U+13178 and U+1317F are the kEH_Desc field of Unikemet.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unikemet.txt). Wikipedia, Duck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck): duck is a common name and not one species: it covers many waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which are smaller than the swans and geese of that family and have shorter necks; the word comes from Old English for diver, because many dabbling ducks feed by upending; a duckling is a young duck, a male is a drake; the classic quack belongs to the female mallard, and the greater part of duck species make other sounds. Wikipedia, Anatinae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatinae): dabbling ducks do not dive for food, they take most of it at the surface. Wikipedia, Rubber duck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck): a toy shaped like a duck, usually yellow, often symbolically linked to bathing. Wikipedia, Rubber duck debugging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging): debugging by talking the code through, one step at a time. Wikipedia, Duck, duck, goose (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose): a children's game of long standing, one many learn at preschool. Wikipedia, The Ugly Duckling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_Duckling): a Danish literary fairy tale; not a duckling but a cygnet. Wikipedia, Duck test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test): the usual expression. Wikipedia, Duck (cricket) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_(cricket)): a batter out for nought, short for duck's egg. Wikipedia, List of British bingo nicknames (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_bingo_nicknames): 22 is two little ducks, because the numeral resembles the profile of two ducks; the response is often quack, quack. The quack in French, Italian, Danish, Hungarian, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin is from the translations tables of Wiktionary's entry quack (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quack), the Russian without its dictionary stress mark. The idioms are entries Wiktionary lists under duck (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/duck), with the definitions of its own entries for them: nice weather for ducks (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nice_weather_for_ducks), like water off a duck's back (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/like_water_off_a_duck%27s_back), have one's ducks in a row (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/have_one%27s_ducks_in_a_row) and lucky duck (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lucky_duck). That a system without a font for a character shows a missing glyph indicator is from UTS #51, Unicode Emoji, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/). The 10 plain characters, the 7 one-line drawings, the 8 words and the 13 combos are this site's own choice, the drawings are our own and repeat nothing on this site's animal ASCII art page, and the combo names are our own or the sayings themselves. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are ours. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in our own words and credited in the source line.