🐥Front-facing Baby Chick Emoji
Generally, it just means “cute” or “adorable. ” People use it to show they find something charming.
The 🐥 emoji is a front-facing baby chick.
- Unicode
- U+1F425
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :hatched_chick:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐥 Front-facing Baby Chick emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
Front-facing Baby Chick emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the front-facing baby chick as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Front-facing Baby Chick emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :hatched_chick:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the front-facing baby chick, code point U+1F425.
How to type the 🐥 Front-facing Baby Chick emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Front-facing Baby Chick emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the front-facing baby 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
Front-facing Baby Chick emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around front-facing 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🐥 means in other countries
Nearly identical in meaning to the other chick emoji — small, new, and cute — just facing the viewer directly.
Used interchangeably with the side-facing chick for cuteness or newness.
Chick and duckling imagery is common in kawaii-style stickers and branding.
Before you send it: Interchangeable with other chick emoji; pick whichever fits your sentence, no risk either way.
What 🐥 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🐥 vs 🐤 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Front-facing Baby Chick
Code: U+1F425 · added 2010
Shortcode: :hatched_chick:
Generally, it just means “cute” or “adorable.
Unicode name: Baby Chick
Code: U+1F424 · added 2010
Shortcode: :baby_chick:
Generally, 🐤 means a baby chick.
Where the 🐥 Front-facing 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+1F425 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 EB76.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Front-facing Baby Chick was approved as U+1F425 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.