Breast-feeding: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium skin tone shown from the waist up, cradling an infant at their breast. The figure is depicted in a nurturing pose, highlighting the act of feeding a child.

Usage Context

Used to discuss parenting, infant care, or the physical realities of raising a newborn. It often appears in conversations about maternity leave, public breastfeeding rights, or parenting support groups alongside emojis like 👶 and 🍼.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of a push to represent more diverse and inclusive parenting roles. It was developed to provide a standard digital way to represent maternal care, which was previously limited to generic images of mothers or baby bottles.

Details

Glyph

🤱🏽

Unicode

U+1F931 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f931_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD31;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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