About Wing Symbols

Unicode has no general-purpose ornamental wing β€” no matched left-and-right pair to set on either side of a name, which is what most people are looking for when they come to a page like this. What it has instead is a handful of winged things, plus one character added recently enough that older devices cannot display it.

πŸͺ½ Is New, and That Matters

πŸͺ½ is the closest thing here to a plain wing, and it was added to Unicode in a comparatively recent release. Characters added recently take years to reach every device, because each one needs a font update shipped by the platform vendor.

In practice that means πŸͺ½ displays correctly on a current phone and shows as an empty placeholder box on a device that has not been updated in a while. It is the one character on this page worth testing before you rely on it.

It also only exists as a single wing. Pasting it twice gives you two wings facing the same direction, not a mirrored pair.

The Winged Creatures

πŸ¦‹ butterfly, πŸ•ŠοΈ dove, πŸ¦… eagle, πŸ¦‡ bat, and 🐦 bird each carry a distinct tone β€” the dove reads as peace, the eagle as authority, the bat as something darker. πŸͺΆ is a single feather, and 🧚 a fairy.

πŸ¦‹ and πŸ•ŠοΈ hold their shape best at username size; 🧚 is a full figure and loses most of its detail when rendered small.

If You Want a Frame Instead

For the mirrored-pair effect that wings are usually reaching for, the ornaments on the decorative symbols page are built for it β€” several exist in solid and hollow variants designed to sit on either side of a word, and all of them are text characters that take your colour.