Puffin Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 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). Unicode has no emoji named puffin: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds puffin, puffling, auk or seabird. CLDR files antarctica under Penguin alone, clown under Clown face alone, arctic under Polar bear alone, island under Desert island alone, north under Up arrow alone, parrot under Parrot alone and pirate under Parrot and Pirate flag; cliff, burrow, colony and friar lead to no emoji. That the Atlantic puffin is a seabird of the auk family named Fratercula arctica, most commonly found in the Westman Islands of Iceland, that it dives for zooplankton, small fish and crabs using its wings, its orange legs, the narrower dark grey bill of the young, the autumn and winter on the open ocean and the return in late spring, the clifftop colonies, the burrow with a single white egg, the chicks fed mostly whole fish that leave for the sea at night after about six weeks, the islands without land predators, the nicknames clown of the sea and sea parrot, the word puffling, the reputed Norse origin of the name Lundy, the several fish caught in one dive and the bobbing like a cork are from Wikipedia, Atlantic puffin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_puffin, CC BY-SA 4.0). That puffins nest in rock crevices or burrows, live in the North Pacific and North Atlantic, drop the colorful outer parts of the bill after breeding, swim with a flying technique, beat their wings up to 400 times a minute, that the word first named the cured meat of young Manx shearwaters (Middle English pophyn), and that Fratercula is Latin for friar after the plumage are from Wikipedia, Puffin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin). That auks look like penguins without being closely related, an example of convergent evolution, is from Wikipedia, Auk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk). The Icelandic, German, Spanish and Mandarin words are from Wiktionary, puffin (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puffin, CC BY-SA 4.0); lundi from Old Norse from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lundi; Papagei and Taucher from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Papageitaucher, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Papagei and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Taucher; fraile from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frailecillo and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fraile; the Northern Scottish sense of sea parrot from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sea_parrot. The meanings of the Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the 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 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.