Front-facing baby chick

A round yellow chick facing straight ahead with its wings out. It suggests a newborn, innocence, and a shy, eager little greeting.

It works as a cute hello or an affectionate nickname, and it decorates spring and Easter messages. Because it looks at the reader directly, it can feel more expressive than the side-view 🐤.

Facts

Front-facing baby chick 🐥 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal bird. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :hatched_chick: or :front_facing_baby_chick:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “baby”, “bird”, or “chick”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

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

animals & nature · Unicode 6.0