🐥

Front-facing Baby Chick Emoji 🐥

The same yellow chick as 🐤 Baby Chick, turned to face the reader head-on instead of in profile, wings often spread as if caught mid-cheep. That direct, wide-eyed pose reads as more animated than its side-facing sibling, so it leans toward excitement and enthusiasm, an exclamation point more than a plain baby-animal reference.

What 🐥 means

This baby chick appears full length with a yellow body and feathers, yellow legs, and two tiny feet. The character has black eyes, a yellow beak, and a pair of yellow-feathery wings.

The 🐥 Front-Facing Baby Chick is similar to the 🐤 Baby Chick emoji, but with a front view of the same. It signifies growing up, childhood, and from one perspective, this emoji also looks like a cute hug from the chick.

How and when to use it

Use 🐥 in your social media profile name if you find the emoji incredibly cute and/or you love baby chicks, or you have dozens of them at home and/or you're a poultry farmer.
You can use 🐥 in the post caption while sharing social media content about baby chicks; it can be information about their daily care and nourishment, diet, etc.
Apart from the serious content, you can also use 🐥 while posting baby chick memes, and other related funny content.
If you just had a shower and you're either posting a 'fresh from the shower' picture of you on social media or directly messaging someone the same, you can use 🐥 in those contexts as well.
🐥 can also signify a sweet, warm, and cute hug that you can send in a textual conversation.

Other Names

🐥 Fowl
🐥 Baby Chicken
🐥 Baby Bird
🐥 Yellow Bird
🐥 Pullus
🐥 Standing Chick
🐥 Hugging Chick

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-bird
Codepoints: U+1F425
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :hatched_chick:
Keywords: animal, baby, bird, chick, front-facing, newborn, ornithology

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.