An egg split partway open with a chick's head poking through, the moment of hatching caught mid-crack rather than finished. Easter and springtime posts use it for that literal image, and it's become a favorite for birth announcements and "new arrival" posts, the instant something's about to begin.
What 🐣 means
A chick with a yellow body and feathers, two tiny black eyes, and a small yellow beak that is hatching out of a cracked eggshell with its wings held on the edges of the shell.
The 🐣 Hatching Chick emoji signifies new life and a sense of being good as new. On some level, this emoji can also suggest a hug, being cute, naive, tender, and maybe even oblivious.
How and when to use it
- 🐣 can be used in textual greetings, either randomly or for occasions such as Easter.
- If you want to send a super cute virtual hug, you can use 🐣.
- Use 🐣 in the post caption if you're sharing pictures of the brand new chicks in your farm or the chick(s) that you adopted.
- Remember calling someone a hot chick? Keep the ratchet, primal instincts out of this and you can use 🐣 to compliment the same hot chick but with a civilized attitude - like, "OMG. You're looking gorgeous today (and everyday, of course) 🐣".
- You can also use 🐣 in your social media profile name if you're a cute chick, or if you love and adore chicks (the bird), etc.
- 🐣 can also be incorporated into contexts of celebrating new life. Apart from using 👶 in the post caption for your newborn's picture, you can also use 🐣, like "Say hello to Fred 👶 🐣".
- The previous point of view can be applied even while virtually congratulating someone for their new baby. For example, "Heyyy. Much loveeee 🐣 Congratulations!!! 🐣 🎉 " (use other emojis that would fit the context too).
Other Names
- 🐣 Chick
- 🐣 New Born
- 🐣 Poultry
- 🐣 Baby Chicken
- 🐣 Chick (a woman)
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-bird
- Codepoints
U+1F423- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:hatching_chick:- Keywords
- animal, baby, bird, chick, egg, hatching
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🐣 Hatching Chick or 🇼🇸 Flag: Samoa?
Runs with a crowd
🐣 keeps company in easter emojis and yellow emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.