People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🤱Breast-feeding Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🤱 emoji, they're just acknowledging or sharing something related to breastfeeding or a baby. It’s often a casual way to show support or connection.
The 🤱 emoji shows a mother with her baby breastfeeding.
- Unicode
- U+1F931
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :breast-
feeding: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤱 Breast-feeding 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 breast emoji.
02 — Platforms
Breast-feeding emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the breast-feeding as 9 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
Breast-feeding 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
Breast-feeding emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :breast-feeding:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the breast-feeding, code point U+1F931.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🤱 Breast-feeding emoji
No picker to hand? The breast-feeding can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Breast-feeding 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
07 — Combinations
Breast-feeding emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around breast-feeding 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
Who sent the breast-feeding and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🤱 means in other countries
Normalized in many parenting circles, while public breastfeeding itself still draws mixed reactions depending on the setting.
Supportive, everyday context for discussing feeding.
Topic usually kept out of professional conversation entirely.
Public nursing can draw disapproving attention even where the emoji itself is fine.
Before you send it: Comfortable among parents and friends; skip it in formal or mixed professional threads.
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: Breast-feeding
Code: U+1F931 · added 2017
Shortcode: :breast-feeding:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🤱 emoji, they're just acknowledging or sharing something related to breastfeeding or a baby.
Unicode name: Woman Feeding Baby
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F37C · added 2020
Shortcode: :woman_feeding_baby:
Generally, it means someone is talking about a mother and child, or expressing love and care for a baby.
13 — History
Where the 🤱 Breast-feeding emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the breast-feeding has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F931 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.
Breast-feeding was approved as U+1F931 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ