🐤Baby Chick Emoji
Generally, 🐤 means a baby chick. People use it to show something is cute or small, like a little bird.
The 🐤 emoji represents a baby chick.
- Unicode
- U+1F424
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :baby_chick:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐤 Baby Chick emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as chick emoji.
Baby Chick emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F424 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your baby chick looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Baby Chick emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :baby_chick:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F424.
How to type the 🐤 Baby Chick emoji
No picker to hand? The baby chick can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Baby Chick emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Baby Chick emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around baby 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 baby chick and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐤 means in other countries
Reads as spring, new beginnings, and cuteness, with Easter associations strongest in Christian-majority countries.
Common Easter symbol alongside eggs and bunnies, tied to renewal.
Shorthand for something small, new, or endearing, like a baby announcement.
Before you send it: Works well for good news or spring greetings; no downside in casual or professional chat.
What 🐤 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F424, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🐤 vs 🐣 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Baby Chick
Code: U+1F424 · added 2010
Shortcode: :baby_chick:
Generally, 🐤 means a baby chick.
Unicode name: Hatching Chick
Code: U+1F423 · added 2010
Shortcode: :hatching_chick:
Generally, 🐣 means a new beginning or something cute and fresh.
Where the 🐤 Baby 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+1F424 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 E4E0, SoftBank E523.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Baby Chick was approved as U+1F424 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.