🐧

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🐧︎ 🐧️
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🐧 U+1F427, 🐧
PENGUIN
← 🐦
[U+1F426]
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🐨 β†’
[U+1F428]

Translingual

Etymology

An allusion to Tux, the penguin mascot character of Linux.

Proper noun

🐧

  1. (informal) The Linux operating system.
    You should switch to 🐧.
    • 2020 October 25, u/Murphy-Waters, β€œWindows Refund Day - February 15, 1999”, in r/windowsβ€Ž[1] (Reddit post), archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
      🐧 users never got their money back tho
    • 2025 February 6, @GentooRescue, X (formerly Twitter)β€Ž[2] (post):
      🐧puzzler is now on 🐧OS πŸŽ‰

Vietnamese

Etymology

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Symbol

🐧

  1. (Internet slang, tone indicator, humorous, sarcastic) Denotes that the preceding statement is sarcastic and/or humorous.

See also