The face of a baby with a small tuft of hair on top of its head. Some platforms show the baby sucking on a pacifier, and some platforms show a single tooth in the baby’s open mouth. Android previously displayed this emoji as a swaddled baby. Just like the child, boy, and girl emojis, the baby emoji also conveys multiple meanings and feelings from the sender to the reader. It depends on the perspective of the sender of the emoji and its receiver how to predict the emotions behind this emoji. It may be a sign of new beginnings, of someone's innocence, or conveying that the receiver has a small baby hidden inside them somewhere. Any meaning can suit as long as it aligns with the thoughts of the sender and the receiver of the emoji.
HISTORY:
From the time this baby emoji was introduced and standardized by the Unicode in the year 2010, its popularity has been unstoppable. It is still very impactful and will continue to be so till the end of mankind on Mother Earth for sure.
USES:
As discussed earlier, the use of the baby emoji can be done to show the tenderness, warmth, innocence, beginning of a new life, affection, or even for playful teasing purposes.
Name | Baby |
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Codepoint | U+1F476 |
Unicode | Baby |
Apple Name | Baby |
Android Name | |
Shortcode | :baby: (GitHub, Slack, Discord) |