Breast-feeding: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
An emoji showing a person with a medium-dark skin tone cradling a baby at the breast. The figure is depicted from the torso up, illustrating the act of nursing an infant.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to talk about parenting, motherhood, or the specific process of breastfeeding. It is frequently sent by new parents sharing updates about their infants or discussing the logistics of feeding schedules. It is often grouped with other family-oriented icons like 👶 or 🍼 to highlight the demands and rewards of early childcare.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0, this icon was created to fill a gap in the representation of parental responsibilities. It arrived alongside a wider push to include more diverse and inclusive depictions of caregivers and family life in digital communication.
Details
Glyph
🤱🏾
Unicode
U+1F931 U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f931_1f3fe:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-role
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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