Baby angel: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A cherubic, golden-haired infant face with a pair of small, white feathered wings and a glowing yellow halo hovering above its head. This version features a medium skin tone, representing a broader range of human appearances.

Usage Context

Used to denote innocence, sweetness, or a good-natured personality. It is frequently sent as a sarcastic retort when someone is acting deceptively angelic or feigning ignorance after causing trouble. It pairs naturally with other heavenly figures like 😇 or divine markers like ✨.

History

The baby angel emoji stems from the classical Western artistic tradition of the 'putto'—the plump, winged toddler figure often found in Renaissance church paintings. It was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2010 and received skin tone modifier support in 2015 to align with the push for inclusive character representations in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👼🏽

Unicode

U+1F47C U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f47c_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC7C;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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