People & Body · Emoji 13.0
👨🍼Man Feeding Baby Emoji
It usually just means someone is talking about a baby or a father. People use it to show support or excitement about the situation.
The 👨🍼 emoji shows a man feeding a baby, usually with a bottle.
- Unicode
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F37C
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :man_
feeding_ baby: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👨🍼 Man Feeding Baby emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
People also look for it as dad emoji.
02 — Platforms
Man Feeding Baby emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the man feeding baby as 5 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Feeding Baby emoji skin tones
👨🍼 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Man Feeding Baby emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man_feeding_baby:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F468.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👨🍼 Man Feeding Baby emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F468 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Man Feeding Baby emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man feeding baby as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man Feeding Baby emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man feeding baby for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 👨🍼 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 👨🍼 means in other countries
A caregiving image that reads as plainly positive nearly everywhere, sometimes highlighted specifically to show involved fatherhood.
Everyday way to share a dad's caregiving or bottle-feeding moment.
Occasionally used to spotlight hands-on fatherhood.
No negative or mixed reading in casual conversation.
Before you send it: Fine to use freely — at most it draws a small extra nod for showing dads caregiving.
10 — Apps
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.
12 — Difference
👨🍼 vs 🫃 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Feeding Baby
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F37C · added 2020
Shortcode: :man_feeding_baby:
It usually just means someone is talking about a baby or a father.
Unicode name: Pregnant Man
Code: U+1FAC3 · added 2021
Shortcode: :pregnant_man:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🫃 emoji, they’re just being playful and a bit weird.
13 — History
Where the 👨🍼 Man Feeding Baby emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F468 U+200D U+1F37C 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.
Man Feeding Baby was approved as U+1F468 U+200D U+1F37C and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👨🍼 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ