Baby angel Emoji
People
A cartoonish, smiling baby face featuring a pair of small feathered wings protruding from its back and a glowing yellow halo hovering above its head.
Usage Context
Frequently used to suggest innocence, purity, or to imply that someone is being well-behaved. It is also common in messages about new babies, blessings, or playful sarcasm when someone is acting less than angelic. It is often used in tandem with the 😇 smiling face with halo or the 👼 variants found in different platform styles.
History
The baby angel has been a fixture in digital communication since the early 2000s, drawing heavily from traditional Western religious art where cherubs were depicted as winged infants. It was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to help translate common cultural imagery into the expanding world of cross-platform messaging.
Details
Glyph
👼
Unicode
U+1F47C
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f47c:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-fantasy
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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