The baby: dark skin tone emoji is the adorable baby face with rich brown skin, big curious eyes, and that instantly recognizable single curl of hair on top. On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy, round-cheeked cutie with soft shading, a tiny smile, and ears peeking out—basically the poster child for “awww.” This variant uses the dark skin tone modifier, giving people a more accurate, inclusive way to represent their families, friends, and mini-me’s. Visually, it reads like a newborn headshot: simple, sweet, and front-facing, no pacifier or bottle in sight.
Online, it’s perfect for birth announcements, baby fever moments, or captioning those first-visit-with-the-niece pics. It doubles as the “I’m baby” meme—aka the universal excuse for being helpless, sleepy, or in need of snacks—and works hilariously after minor chaos (“spilled everything, but it’s okay, I’m baby”). People drop it in flirty DMs as a cutesy “hey, baby,” or use it to signal fresh starts and soft launches: new project, who dis? Parenting group chats pair it with 🍼 when discussing nap schedules and diaper diplomacy. It also pops up as a stand-in for pure cuteness overload—think Grogu energy—when something is small, squishy, and must be protected at all costs.
The Baby emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3508 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Black 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F476, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128118, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B6, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 266, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC76, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc76, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56438, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F476 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F476, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128118, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F476\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb6\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC76\uD83C\uDFFF" |
