Baby angel

A baby with a halo and wings, a cherub. People use it for innocence, sweetness, and babies or kids who are “little angels”.

Like 😇, it answers a tease with mock innocence: “who, me? 👼”. Parents use it for a sleeping baby, and it decorates Christmas and christening posts.

Families also use it to remember a baby who died, an “angel baby”. People sometimes use it as Cupid on Valentine's Day, though 💘 is the usual Cupid symbol.

Facts

Baby angel 👼 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person fantasy. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :angel: or :baby_angel:. People also look for it with words like “angel”, “baby”, “church”, or “face”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Unicode 6.0