Hatching chick

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Shortcode
:hatching_chick:
Unicode
U+1F423
HTML
🐣
CSS
\1F423
JavaScript
"\u{1F423}"
URL
%F0%9F%90%A3

animalbabybirdchickegghatching

What ๐Ÿฃ means

A baby chick breaking out of its egg. It stands for new beginnings: a birth, a first day, a fresh start.

Birth announcements, Easter and spring posts use it a lot. People also call themselves "freshly hatched" when they are new to a job, a hobby or an online community.

Facts

Hatching chick ๐Ÿฃ 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 :hatching_chick:. People also look for it with words like โ€œanimalโ€, โ€œbabyโ€, โ€œbirdโ€, or โ€œchickโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. hatching chick, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. hatching chick, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. hatching chick, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. hatching chick, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

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

animals & nature ยท Unicode 6.0