Say hello to the universal awww button: the baby: medium-dark skin tone emoji (aka 👶🏾). It’s perfect for birth announcements, baby shower hype, proud auntie/uncle moments, or that “new here, please be gentle” energy. Online, it doubles as the “I’m baby” meme—code for softness, vulnerability, or playful helplessness—and sometimes a wink at newbie status in a hobby, game, or job. It also pops up when someone’s being extra dramatic or childish, said with love or side‑eye depending on the vibe.
On Apple/iOS, this little cutie is a front‑facing baby head with chubby cheeks, a tiny curl of hair on top, bright round eyes, and a small, neutral‑to‑smiley mouth. The styling uses soft gradients and clean lines, no body—just the face—and in this variant the skin is a warm medium‑dark brown. It’s the kind of simple, instantly recognizable silhouette that still reads “baby” even in a tiny notification preview. Think: gentle glow, classic curl, peak adorableness.
In the wild, you’ll see it paired with 🍼, 🧸, 👣, or 🤱🏾 for parenting life, “baby fever,” and milestone posts. It’s also deployed ironically—“grow up” jokes, tantrum reenactments, or the dramatic “no thoughts, just baby.” Add ✨ for soft-life aesthetics or 😭 for maximum chaotic-cute. Bonus pop-culture resonance: captions about Baby Shark earworms or that collective “protect at all costs” instinct for anything tiny and precious.
The Baby emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3507 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: | Deeper 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F476, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128118, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B6, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 266, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC76, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc76, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56438, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F476 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F476, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128118, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F476\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb6\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC76\uD83C\uDFFE" |
