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

&#xD83D;&#xDC7C;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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