Baby chick Emoji

Animals

A small, bright yellow baby chick standing upright and facing to the left. The design typically features a tiny orange beak and small, rounded wings tucked against its sides.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent spring, Easter, or new beginnings. It is frequently sent to signal cuteness or to refer to someone who is inexperienced or 'new' to a topic. Users often pair it with 🐣 to represent hatching or 🐥 to show the bird facing forward.

History

This emoji arrived as part of the initial Unicode implementation in 2010. Its design originates from the early Japanese mobile carrier sets, which utilized simple, colorful graphics to make digital messaging feel more expressive and lighthearted compared to standard text.

Details

Glyph

🐤

Unicode

U+1F424

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f424:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC24;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-bird

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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