= baby on board, baby changing station

Information

On Apple/iOS, it’s a crisp white pictogram of a diapered baby sitting on a bright blue rounded-square sign—face-free, no frills, pure signage aesthetic. The diaper silhouette (often hinting at a safety pin) is the giveaway, just like the restroom-style icons you spot in airports and malls.

Functionally, it’s the catchall “tiny human involved” marker—think wayfinding meets the parenting storyline. In captions and texts, it flags pregnancy reveals, brand-new-baby announcements, or a quiet “baby on board” mood without a whole paragraph. Bonus: tagging kid-friendly zones, diaper-duty moments, or a gentle heads-up that strollers and nap schedules currently run the household.

It also moonlights in meme-speak for peak “I’m baby” energy—soft, needy, dramatic, or playfully helpless—sometimes sincere and sweet, sometimes clowning someone for being a crybaby. People drop it in bios to soft-launch parenthood or in group chats to herald the tiniest new party member. Culturally, it nods to the ’80s “Baby on Board” signs and the standardized wayfinding symbols you rely on when sprinting to a changing table mid-meltdown—instantly legible, no translation needed.

Definition

It's a baby! A newly born human. Very small in size when compared to a full grown adult human. Babies are often associated with crawling (moving around with hands and legs touching the ground), since they are still learning to walk on two feet. Babies are also associated with diapers (underwear specially designed to absorb and hold poop and pee), since they are not potty trained.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
2. In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	654 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:baby_symbol:
Keywords	Baby, Crawl, Newborn, Human, Diaper, Small, Babe

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Transport and Map Symbols
Unicode Range	1F680–1F6FF
Unicode Subcategory	Signage and Other Symbols

Editorial Comment

An orange icon which shows a sleeping infant. Baby changing station. Also, the twerking emoji. Old name: Baby Orange Icon

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory	Signage and Other Symbols
Names & Annotations	BABY SYMBOL = baby on board, baby changing station Temporary Notes: used as a sign for a baby; Crawling Baby
Symbol Information	U+1F6BC proposed
Proposal Identifier	e-B35

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	[赤ちゃん]
KDDI	#710 赤ちゃん 「赤chiyan」 U+EB18 SJIS-F3D9 JIS-7A5B
Softbank	#359 #old148 赤ちゃんマーク 「赤chiyanmaaku」 U+E13A SJIS-F77A

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	🚼
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	🚼
Decimal HTML Entity	🚼
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	🚼
Hex Code Point(s)	1f6bc
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F6BC
Decimal Code Point(s)	128700
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xBC
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 9A BC
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 232 274
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDEBC
UTF-16 Hex	d83ddebc
UTF-16 Dec	55357 57020
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F6BC
UTF-32 Hex	01F6BC
UTF-32 Dec	128700
Python Src	u"\U0001F6BC"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x9a\xbc"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDEBC"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)