Baby Emoji

People

A cartoon-style face of an infant with a single lock of hair, round eyes, and a small, neutral mouth. The design captures the universal features of a newborn, focusing on the round head and simple, youthful appearance.

Usage Context

Used to announce a pregnancy, celebrate the birth of a child, or discuss parenting experiences. It frequently appears alongside emojis like 🍼, 👶, or 🐣 when discussing family life, baby showers, or general topics related to childhood development.

History

The baby emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. It was initially adopted to help standardize visual communication in mobile messaging apps, which were rapidly replacing text-based emoticons like ':-)' to represent family members and life stages.

Details

Glyph

👶

Unicode

U+1F476

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f476:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC76;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository