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A baby chicken (chick), hatching from an egg and seeing the world for the first time. Depicted as a yellow chick with an orange beak facing forward in the cracked, bottom half of a white egg, generally shown flapping its wings with a cute facial expression.

Often used with an affectionate tone. May be used to represent various types of baby birds. May also be used to represent&nbsp;chicken foods (e.g., <a href="/poultry-leg/">poultry</a>, <a href="/egg/">eggs</a>), <a href="/spring/">spring</a>, <a href="/easter/">Easter</a>, or slang senses of chick.

Not to be confused with <a href="/baby-chick/">🐤 Baby Chick</a> or <a href="/front-facing-baby-chick/">🐥Front-Facing Baby Chick</a>&nbsp;(out of its egg), though their applications overlap. See also <a href="/chicken/">🐔 Chicken</a> and <a href="/rooster/">🐓 Rooster</a>.

Twitter and Facebook&#39;s designs do not include wings. Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-7.0/hatching-chick/">previously</a> featured motion lines around the chick&#39;s wings, indicating flapping.&nbsp;Facebook&#39;s design <a href="/facebook/2.0/hatching-chick/">previously</a> showed part of the egg atop the chick&#39;s head.

Hatching Chick

A baby chicken (chick), shown as if&nbsp;flapping its wings.&nbsp;Depicted as a yellow chick with an orange beak in full profile standing on its legs, generally with&nbsp;its wings raised.

Often used with an affectionate tone. May be used to represent various types of baby birds. May also be used to represent&nbsp;chicken foods (e.g., <a href="/poultry-leg/">poultry</a>, <a href="/egg/">eggs</a>), <a href="/spring/">spring</a>, <a href="/easter/">Easter</a>, or slang senses of chick.

Not to be confused with <a href="/baby-chick/">🐤 Baby Chick</a> or <a href="/hatching-chick/">🐣 Hatching Chick</a>&nbsp;(still in its egg), though their applications overlap. See also <a href="/chicken/">🐔 Chicken</a> and <a href="/rooster/">🐓 Rooster</a>.

Facebook&#39;s design <a href="/facebook/1.0/front-facing-baby-chick/">previously</a> featured only a chick head facing forward.

Front-Facing Baby Chick

Quack! A duck, a waterbird with webbed feet. Depicted as a male (drake) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard">mallard</a> in full profile facing left, standing on its legs with gray and brown feathers, a yellow bill, and its distinctive green head.

May be consumed in the form of a <a href="/poultry-leg/">🍗 Poultry Leg</a>. Occasionally used as a substitute for the F-word, due to rhyming and Apple&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ducking">iPhone autocorrect</a>.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/duck/">previously</a> featured a yellow rubber ducky.

Duck

A bird&#39;s nest with eggs inside.

May be used to talk about actual nests or birds. May also be used to talk about home in general or to represent phrases like nest egg or empty nest.

<a href="/empty-nest/">🪹 Empty Nest</a> was approved at the same time as&nbsp;Nest with Eggs.

Nest with Eggs

A chicken, a bird used for its meat and <a href="/egg/">eggs</a>. Generally depicted as the white head of&nbsp;a chicken (hen or rooster) looking left, with a yellow beak, red <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_(anatomy)">comb</a> on its head, and red wattle on its neck.

May be consumed in the form of <a href="/poultry-leg/">🍗&nbsp;Poultry Leg</a>. Not to be confused with the full-bodied <a href="/rooster/">🐓 Rooster,</a> though their applications overlap. Also may be used for metaphorical senses of chicken (e.g., &ldquo;coward&rdquo;).

See also <a href="/hatching-chick/">🐣 Hatching Chick</a>, <a href="/baby-chick/">🐤 Baby Chick</a>, and <a href="/front-facing-baby-chick/">🐥 Front-Facing Baby Chick</a>.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Twitter&rsquo;s chicken head is looking straight ahead. Microsoft&rsquo;s chicken was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/chicken/">previously</a> yellow, while&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/chicken/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> faced&nbsp;forward;&nbsp;Facebook&rsquo;s design <a href="/facebook/2.0/chicken/">once featured</a> a full, brown bird, while&nbsp;<a href="/chicken/">Google&rsquo;s </a>design previously featured&nbsp;a full bodied chicken.

Chicken

A rooster (cock), a male <a href="/chicken/" title="🐔 Chicken">chicken</a> known for its cock-a-doodle-do. Depicted as a white or multicolored rooster standing on its legs in full profile facing left, with a red <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_(anatomy)">comb</a> on its head and red wattle on its neck.

Not to be confused with <a href="/chicken/">🐔 Chicken</a>, though their applications overlap. See also <a href="/hatching-chick/">🐣 Hatching Chick</a>, <a href="/baby-chick/">🐤 Baby Chick</a>, and <a href="/front-facing-baby-chick/">🐥 Front-Facing Baby Chick</a>. Occasionally used as&nbsp;sexual slang.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>.

Google&rsquo;s rooster is brown with a green tail, Facebook&rsquo;s brown with a blue tail. Google&rsquo;s rooster was <a href="/google/android-7.0/rooster/">previously</a> white, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/rooster/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> yellow, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/rooster/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> looking straight ahead.

Rooster

The face of a baby with a small tuft of hair on top of its head. Some platforms show the baby sucking on a pacifier, and some platforms show a single tooth in the baby&rsquo;s open mouth. Android <a href="/google/android-5.0/baby/">previously displayed</a> this emoji as a swaddled baby.

On <a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, the baby emoji signifies a new friend on the service. This emoji can also be used in the context of the meme <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-baby">&ldquo;I&rsquo;m baby.&rdquo;</a>

See also <a href="/baby-angel/">👼 Baby Angel</a>.

Baby

A yellow baby chicken (chick). Variously depicted as a chick in full profile, standing on its legs, or as a chick head. Both designs show the bird facing left, with an orange beak and feet.

Often used with an affectionate tone. May be used to represent various types of baby birds. May also be used to represent&nbsp;chicken foods (e.g., <a href="/poultry-leg/">poultry</a>, <a href="/egg/">eggs</a>), <a href="/spring/">spring</a>, <a href="/easter/">Easter</a>, or slang senses of chick.

Not to be confused with <a href="/hatching-chick/">🐣 Hatching Chick</a> or <a href="/front-facing-baby-chick/">🐥Front-Facing Baby Chick</a>, though their applications overlap. See also <a href="/chicken/">🐔 Chicken</a> and <a href="/rooster/">🐓 Rooster</a>.

Apple, WhatsApp, and Facebook&rsquo;s designs feature a chick head;&nbsp;other major platforms display a full-bodied chick.

Baby Chick

The pink flower of a cherry blossom tree. Depicted as a single, light-pink cherry blossom with five, notched petals and red-tipped stamens in&nbsp;a yellow or white center.

A traditional symbol <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom">in Japan</a>, where the flower is called sakura&nbsp;and celebrated in&nbsp;annual viewings.

Commonly used for <a href="/valentines-day/">Valentine&rsquo;s Day</a>, <a href="/mothers-day/">Mother&rsquo;s Day</a>, and other special occasions. May be more generally used to express such ideas as love and beauty.&nbsp;Also used as a pink accent color.

Not to be confused with <a href="/white-flower/">💮 White Flower</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/hibiscus/">🌺 Hibiscus</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Cherry Blossom

A phoenix, a mythical immortal&nbsp;bird with flame-like feathers found in the folklore of many global cultures. Often used to symbolize renewal or rebirth.

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Phoenix

A seedling, or a young plant, as a newly sprouted tree. Depicted as a tiny, light-green plant with a short stem and two leaves. Often shown freshly sprung from a small mound of brown earth.

May be used for various content concerning plant life. May also be used as a symbol of <a href="/spring/">spring</a> or representation of various types of new growth.

Not to be confused with <a href="/herb/">🌿 Herb</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Facebook&rsquo;s seedling <a href="/facebook/1.0/seedling/">previously</a> had three leaves.

Seedling

A bottle of&nbsp;<a href="/glass-of-milk/">milk&nbsp;</a>or&nbsp;formula,&nbsp;as or fed to a&nbsp;<a href="/baby/">baby</a>, with a bluish cap and rubber nipple or teat. Positioned upright or at a 45&deg; angle, and filled to various levels, sometimes showing fill lines. Often used for newborns&nbsp;and childrearing. See also <a href="/breast-feeding/">Breast-Feeding</a>.

Baby Bottle

A baby with a halo and wings. Can represent a sweet baby, a biblical cherub, a mythological cupid, a decorative putto, or an angel as a supernatural being in general. This emoji can&nbsp;be used earnestly or&nbsp;in a tongue-in-cheek way to talk about goodness or innocence.

It is often used to express affection for people, especially children at birth or, more sadly, after death. This emoji pops up in <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-baby-angel/">a large variety&nbsp;of contexts</a> ranging from innocence, love, Valentine&#39;s Day, positive feelings like gratitude, and the Christian faith, especially during Christmas.

See also <a href="/baby/">👶 Baby</a>.

Baby Angel

A latin cross, otherwise known as a Christian cross. This cross symbol is often used as a symbol of Christianity. Similar in appearance&nbsp;to the <a href="/orthodox-cross/">Orthodox cross</a>.

Latin Cross

An egg,&nbsp;displayed as a chicken egg with a white or light brown shell. Commonly used at&nbsp;<a href="/easter/">Easter</a>&nbsp;time. See also: <a href="/cooking/">🍳 Cooking</a>.

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a rabbit, looking straight ahead. Generally depicted as a gray and/or white rabbit face with upright ears and pink ears and nose, often with whiskers and a buck tooth.

Often used with a more affectionate tone than the full-bodied <a href="/rabbit/">🐇 rabbit</a>. Also often used to represent the <a href="/easter/">Easter Bunny</a>.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s rabbit face was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/rabbit-face/">previously</a> pink-colored&nbsp;with one ear flopping down. Facebook&rsquo;s rabbit face was <a href="/facebook/1.0/rabbit-face/">previously</a> gray-colored&nbsp;with both ears flopping down.

Rabbit Face

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

SoftBank&nbsp;is a Japanese carrier&nbsp;which had its own emoji set for the years 1997&mdash;2016. SoftBank (known as J-Phone at the time) created the&nbsp;first emoji set known to be featured on an early mobile phone.

The SoftBank emoji designs&nbsp;heavily influenced&nbsp;<a href="/apple/iphone-os-2.2/">Apple&#39;s original emoji font</a>&nbsp;which was&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apples-emoji-evolution-1997-2018/">designed to be compatible with this set</a>&nbsp;when launching in Japan, due&nbsp;to iPhone being a SoftBank-exclusive phone when first released.

SoftBank&nbsp;<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.softbank.jp%2Fmobile%2Finfo%2Fpersonal%2Fsoftware%2F20170120-02%2F&amp;edit-text=">announced</a> it would switch to using Google emoji designs from 2016, for&nbsp;phones supporting <a href="/google/android-7.0/">Android 7.0</a> or above. SoftBank no longer releases&nbsp;updates to this emoji set.

Early emoji designs from Japanese phone carrier Softbank (previously known as J-Phone)

📲 SoftBank Emoji List — Original Emojis from SoftBank in Japan

The last update to SoftBank&#39;s emoji set was released in 2014 and discontinued in 2016. This release added 277 new characters

A minor update to this set removed regional indicators in 2016, but otherwise delivered no new changes.

2014

An increased resolution and a number of design changes. This was the first release to switch the <a href="/person-tipping-hand/">💁&nbsp;Person Tipping Hand</a> (nee Information Desk Person) from a <a href="/softbank/2001/person-tipping-hand/">Man</a> to a <a href="/softbank/2004/person-tipping-hand/">Woman</a>, and many emojis were redesigned with additional detail.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

🐣 Hatching Chick on SoftBank 2004

🐣 Hatching Chick on SoftBank 2004

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