This is the classic baby face, upgraded with a warm medium‑light skin tone—perfect for birth announcements, “I’m an aunt/uncle now!” posts, or that one friend who says “sorry I can’t come out, nap schedule.” It also fuels the internet-famous “I’m baby” vibe: leaning into softness, asking for gentle treatment, or playfully pretending to be helpless to dodge responsibilities (we see you). On the flip side, it can be used ironically to roast someone for being delicate, or sweetly when talking about a partner, pet, or your brand-new side project (“this app is my baby”). Stan culture drops it when calling idols “our baby,” and it shows up in “soft hours” captions with sparkles and hearts when the timeline gets extra wholesome.
On Apple/iOS, the design is a front-facing, cherub-round head with a tiny closed smile, wide black eyes, and the instantly recognizable single curl of hair centered on top—no pacifier, no hat, just pure infant core. With the medium‑light tone applied (Fitzpatrick Type‑3 modifier), the face reads as a soft beige/peach, with gentle shading and a glossy, clean finish typical of Apple’s emoji style. The lock-of-hair silhouette and baby-round cheeks are the giveaway at a glance. Other platforms keep the general look, but Apple’s version feels especially polished and warm.
People pair it with milk-bottle and teddy-bear references, or drop it next to sparkle, heart, and baby-symbol icons to signal new arrivals, baby showers, or “I caught baby fever” confessions. It can be flirty-cutesy (“hey baby”), wildly wholesome (“my niece arrived!!”), or perfectly sarcastic (“okay baby, calm down”). Bonus meme use: announcing you’re new at something—new job, new gym, new game—like, “be nice, I’m baby.”
The Baby emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3505 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Light Brown Baby |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👶🏼 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👶🏼 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👶 🏼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👶 🏼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f476, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F476, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128118, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B6, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 266, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC76, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc76, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56438, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F476 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F476, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128118, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F476\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb6\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC76\uD83C\uDFFC" |
