🐓 Rooster

🐓 Emoji Meaning

The 🐓 Rooster emoji depicts a male chicken, also known as a cock or rooster. It has a variety of meanings, depending on context:

• Morning/Waking Up: Roosters are famously associated with crowing at dawn, so the emoji can represent the morning, waking up, or the start of a new day.
• Masculinity/Pride: Roosters are often seen as symbols of masculinity, pride, and confidence due to their flamboyant appearance and assertive behavior.
• Bravery/Fighting Spirit: Cockfighting is a (often illegal) blood sport in some cultures, leading to an association between roosters and bravery, aggression, or fighting spirit. However, using the emoji in this context can be controversial.
• The Chinese Zodiac: The Rooster is one of the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac. It can represent people born in the Year of the Rooster, or the characteristics associated with that sign (e.g., hardworking, resourceful, courageous).
• Farm Life/Countryside: More generally, the rooster can simply represent farm life, the countryside, or animals.
• France (Informal): The rooster (le coq) is a national symbol of France, so the emoji might be used in this context, particularly by French people.
• Cockiness/Arrogance (sometimes negative): Due to the strutting and sometimes aggressive behavior of roosters, the emoji can sometimes be used to imply cockiness or arrogance, often ironically or playfully.

It's important to note that the specific meaning can vary depending on the surrounding text and the cultural background of the sender and receiver.

Rooster Emoji Images

Here is how Rooster emoji looks like on iPhone, Android, Facebook, Messenger and X:

Animal-Bird Related Emoji

Here is a list of other emojis from the Animals & Nature category, Animal-Bird subcategory:

• 🦉 Owl
• 🦜 Parrot
• 🦚 Peacock
• 🐧 Penguin
• 🐦‍🔥 Phoenix
• 🦢 Swan
• 🦃 Turkey
• 🪽 Wing