Nest Emoji

Press Copy for the empty nest, or pick the nest with eggs, a text nest like \_ooo_/ or a combo.

Nest Emoji

🪹Empty nestU+1FAB9Ready to copy

46 nest items. Tap one to copy it.

The two nests and their neighbours 20

Nest in other writing 6

Text nests, one line 7

Nest combos 13

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How it works

Unicode prints both nests among the plants, between a leaf in the wind and a mushroom, and not with the birds. This nest emoji page puts the birds back, with nest characters, typed nests and 13 combos.

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Empty nest and nest with eggs: two emoji

Empty nest is U+1FAB9 and Nest with eggs is U+1FABA. Both are from Emoji 14.0, so an older device may show an empty box. CLDR gives home and empty to the first, and bird, egg and eggs to the second. Nesting finds a third emoji: Nesting dolls.

Nest symbols older than the emoji

巢 is the Han character Unihan defines as nest, living quarter in tree; Japan writes it 巣 and reads it su. Wiktionary traces nest to a root meaning where the bird sits down, which also gave Latin nīdus, French nid and Spanish nido.

  • The study of birds’ nests has two names, by Wikipedia: caliology and nidology.

Questions and answers

What does the empty nest emoji mean?

The name is all Unicode gives: a nest with no eggs in it. An empty nest is also a home the children have grown up and left, as Wiktionary defines it. The combos Off to college and Empty nest, full suitcase use that sense.

Is there a bird nest emoji?

Two, side by side in Unicode’s list, and no other emoji is named for a nest. Only the one with eggs is filed under bird: it is the last of the 22 emoji CLDR lists there.

Is there a bird in a nest emoji?

No emoji is named for a bird on its nest. The combo Sitting tight puts Bird beside Nest with eggs, and Room service adds a worm.

Is there a nest symbol that is not an emoji?

Not one that Unicode names: the two emoji are its only characters named for a nest, and neither has a text style form. The Han characters and the typed nests on this page are plain text.

All 46 nest items

The two nests and their neighbours 20

  • Bird U+1F426. Shares the search word bird with Nest with eggs. Emoji 0.6.
  • Black bird U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B. Filed under crow, raven and rook. Emoji 15.0.
  • Deciduous tree U+1F333. Filed under tree, forest and habitat. Emoji 1.0.
  • Dove U+1F54A U+FE0F. Filed under bird, fly and peace. Emoji 0.7.
  • Egg U+1F95A. Shares the search word egg with Nest with eggs. Emoji 3.0.
  • Empty nest U+1FAB9. Unicode names the character Empty nest. Five search words: branch, empty, home, nest and nesting. Printed among the plants, after Leaf fluttering in wind. Emoji 14.0.
  • Feather U+1FAB6. Filed under bird and plumage. Emoji 13.0.
  • Front-facing baby chick U+1F425. Filed under newborn and chick. Emoji 0.6.
  • Hatching chick U+1F423. Filed under egg, hatching and chick. Emoji 0.6.
  • Herb U+1F33F. Filed under leaf and plant. Emoji 0.6.
  • Hut U+1F6D6. Shares the search word home with Empty nest. Emoji 13.0.
  • Jar U+1FAD9. One of the three emoji CLDR files under empty. Emoji 14.0.
  • Leaf fluttering in wind U+1F343. The emoji before Empty nest in Unicode’s list. Emoji 0.6.
  • Leafless tree U+1FABE. Filed under branches, bare and winter. Emoji 16.0.
  • Mushroom U+1F344. The emoji after Nest with eggs in Unicode’s list. Emoji 0.6.
  • Nest with eggs U+1FABA. The emoji after Empty nest. Filed under bird, egg and eggs. The empty one has none of the three. Emoji 14.0.
  • Nesting dolls U+1FA86. The third emoji CLDR files under nesting: dolls that fit one inside another. Emoji 13.0.
  • Owl U+1F989. Filed under bird and wise. Emoji 3.0.
  • Pouring liquid U+1FAD7. The third emoji under empty, with Empty nest and Jar. Emoji 14.0.
  • Worm U+1FAB1. Filed under worm and earthworm. Emoji 13.0.
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Nest in other writing 6

  • Nest or den, the Han character U+7AA9. Unihan defines it as nest; cave, den; hiding place. Mandarin reading wō.
  • Nest, the Han character U+5DE2. Unihan defines it as nest, living quarter in tree. Mandarin reading cháo.
  • Nest, the newer Japanese form U+5DE3. Unihan lists it as the newer Japanese form of U+5DE2. Read su.
  • nid French, from the Latin nīdus
  • nido Spanish and Italian, from the Latin nīdus
  • nīdus Latin, from the same root as nest, as Wiktionary has it

Text nests, one line 7

  • \_____/ An empty nest, in plain ASCII
  • \_o_/ The first egg
  • \_ooo_/ Three eggs in
  • --\_ooo_/-- On a branch
  • \_VVV_/ Three open beaks
  • (°v°) \_____/ Just flown
  • \_(°v°)_/ One chick at home

Nest combos 13

  • Any day now Nest with eggs, then hourglass not done.
  • Both kinds of nesting Nesting dolls, then nest with eggs.
  • Building season Bird, then herb, then empty nest.
  • Empty nest, full suitcase Empty nest, then luggage, then airplane.
  • Feathering the nest Feather, then empty nest.
  • Home sweet nest Empty nest, then red heart.
  • Nest in the tree Deciduous tree, then nest with eggs.
  • Off to college Empty nest, then graduation cap.
  • Owl’s hollow Deciduous tree, then owl.
  • Quiet near the nest Nest with eggs, then shushing face.
  • Room service Bird, then worm, then nest with eggs.
  • Sitting tight Bird, then nest with eggs.
  • Winter nest Leafless tree, then empty nest.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-07 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, 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. 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). Empty nest is U+1FAB9 and Nest with eggs is U+1FABA, both Emoji 14.0, printed one after the other in the subgroup plant-other of the group Animals & Nature, between Leaf fluttering in wind and Mushroom. CLDR gives Empty nest five search words (branch, empty, home, nest, nesting) and Nest with eggs six (bird, branch, egg, eggs, nest, nesting); nest and branch list these two only, nesting adds Nesting dolls, empty lists Empty nest, Pouring liquid and Jar, and bird lists 22 emoji of which Nest with eggs is the last. UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt) names no other character for a nest; neither emoji has a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The Han definitions, readings and the Japanese variant are from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The root of the word nest (where the bird sits down) and its Latin, French, Spanish and Italian relatives are from Wiktionary, nest, nidus, nid and nido (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nest, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nidus, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nid, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nido, CC BY-SA 4.0); the second sense of empty nest is from Wiktionary, empty nest (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/empty_nest). The names of the study of nests are from Wikipedia, Bird nest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_nest, CC BY-SA 4.0), and what nesting dolls are from Wikipedia, Matryoshka doll (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll). The seven text nests and the thirteen combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. 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 this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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