Hatching chick Emoji

Animals

A yellow baby chick seen from the front as it peeks out from a cracked white eggshell. Only the head and the tip of its wings are visible as it emerges from the shell.

Usage Context

Widely used to announce new beginnings, the arrival of a newborn, or to represent ideas that are currently in development. People often use it alongside the egg emoji to show a process of growth or with the chicken emoji to represent a full life cycle.

History

Part of the original set of emojis standardized by major Japanese mobile carriers in the late 1990s. It gained international popularity alongside the rise of social media as a playful way to signify 'hatching' a new project or life event.

Details

Glyph

🐣

Unicode

U+1F423

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f423:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC23;

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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