People & Body · Emoji 14.0
🫄Pregnant Person Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🫄 emoji, they are announcing they are pregnant or that someone they know is. It’s a simple way to share this big news.
The 🫄 emoji represents a pregnant person.
- Unicode
- U+1FAC4
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :pregnant_
person: - Skin tones
- Yes
Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🫄 Pregnant Person emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
02 — Platforms
Pregnant Person emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAC4. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Pregnant Person 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
Pregnant Person 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 :pregnant_person:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1FAC4.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🫄 Pregnant Person emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FAC4 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Pregnant Person 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
Pregnant Person emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pregnant person 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 pregnant person and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🫄 means in other countries
A deliberately gender-neutral pregnancy symbol, welcomed in inclusive spaces but read as a political statement in more conservative ones.
Represents nonbinary and trans parents, filling a real representation gap.
Can be read as making a statement rather than a neutral announcement.
Simply an alternate, less gendered way to share pregnancy news.
Before you send it: Fits naturally in inclusive spaces; in mixed company it may draw more attention than the classic version.
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: Pregnant Person
Code: U+1FAC4 · added 2021
Shortcode: :pregnant_person:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🫄 emoji, they are announcing they are pregnant or that someone they know is.
Unicode name: Person with Crown
Code: U+1FAC5 · added 2021
Shortcode: :person_with_crown:
Usually, it just means someone is feeling powerful or like they're in charge.
13 — History
Where the 🫄 Pregnant Person emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAC4 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.
Pregnant Person was approved as U+1FAC4 and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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.
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