🐣Hatching Chick Emoji
Generally, 🐣 means a new beginning or something cute and fresh. It’s often used to express excitement or happiness about a new arrival, idea, or situation.
The 🐣 emoji is a baby chick just emerging from its egg.
- Unicode
- U+1F423
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :hatching_chick:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐣 Hatching Chick emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as egg emoji.
Hatching Chick emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the hatching chick has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Hatching Chick emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :hatching_chick:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F423.
How to type the 🐣 Hatching Chick emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F423 when there is no key at all.
Hatching Chick emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the hatching chick as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Hatching Chick emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hatching chick for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐣, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐣 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the hatching chick and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐣 means in other countries
A clean symbol for something new starting — a project, a baby, a fresh idea — with almost no variation by region.
Used for ‘just launched’ or ‘brand new’ moments, professional or personal.
Part of the same spring-renewal imagery as other chick emoji.
Before you send it: Good for announcements of any kind, from launches to babies; it reads as hopeful, not childish.
What 🐣 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the hatching chick lands changes how it is taken.
🐣 vs 🐤 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Hatching Chick
Code: U+1F423 · added 2010
Shortcode: :hatching_chick:
Generally, 🐣 means a new beginning or something cute and fresh.
Unicode name: Baby Chick
Code: U+1F424 · added 2010
Shortcode: :baby_chick:
Generally, 🐤 means a baby chick.
Where the 🐣 Hatching Chick emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F423 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐣 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E74F, KDDI au E5DB.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Hatching Chick was approved as U+1F423 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐣 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.