The baby bottle emoji is the universal sign for tiny tummies and big responsibilities, a little milk-filled vessel that screams "nap schedules rule my life." On Apple, it’s a glossy, slightly angled clear bottle with a white milk fill, blue measurement ticks, a peachy collar, and a soft yellow nipple that looks straight out of a newborn starter pack. The gentle highlights and 3/4 perspective make it feel touchable, like you could grab it mid-burp cloth situation.
People drop it in parenting chats about 3 a.m. feeds, baby shower invites, or registry flexes, but it also moonlights as slang for "you’re being a crybaby" in group texts and gaming lobbies. Paired with 😭 or 🧷, it jokes about someone needing to be coddled; paired with 👶, it’s a cute birth announcement; paired with 🍼🍼🍼, it’s twin or triplet energy. The emoji pops up across TikTok and Instagram with the "I’m baby" meme to signal soft, protect-me vibes, while gym bros sometimes toss it in ironically for their protein "bottle" life. It can be flirtatiously dramatic too—as in, "spoil me, I’m baby," or used sarcastically after a meltdown: "Here’s your 🍼."
Real-world associations hit hard: night-feed bleary eyes, sterilizers humming, and those unmistakable blue ticks that every exhausted parent could spot from a mile away. You’ll see it in pet-care convos for bottle-feeding rescues, in postpartum discussions about pumping vs. formula, and even as a cheeky twist on "bottle service" that ends at 8 p.m., not 2 a.m.
A bottle of milk used to feed a baby. Prior to baby bottles, babies received all their nourishment (milk) from a woman's breast, typically their mother's. However, not all woman can successfully breast feed a baby. In addition, babies eat frequently and mothers need breaks. Plus, people that do not produce milk wanted to be able to feed a baby (e.g., father). Given these things, people sought out and found a solution. People discovered that many babies would still accept and know how to drink milk from an artificial nipple. The artificial nipple was added to a container full of milk and voilà (there it is), a baby bottle was born.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 584 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_bottle: |
| Keywords | Baby, Bottle, Milk, Mother, Nipple, Newborn, Formula |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Beverage Symbols |
| 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) | 1f37c |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F37C |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127868 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8D BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 215 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF7C |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf7c |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57212 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F37C |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F37C |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127868 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F37C" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8d\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF7C" |
