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🐥Front-Facing Baby Chick Emoji
🐥 front-facing baby chick is encoded at U+1F425 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Animals & Nature → Birds, alongside 21 related emojis.
What 🐥 front-facing baby chick means
Birds do steady symbolic work: 🕊️ for peace and condolences, 🦅 for American patriotism, 🦉 for night owls and study posts, 🐔 for calling someone a coward. 🦩 flamingo and 🦚 peacock get used for aesthetic rather than ornithology. The newest member, 🐦🔥 phoenix, is a ZWJ sequence joining bird and fire, added in Emoji 15.1.
Unicode tags this one animal, baby and bird and files it under Animals & Nature → Birds.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F425 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐥 | |
| HTML decimal | 🐥 | |
| CSS | \1F425 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F425} | |
| Python | \U0001F425 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC25 | |
| Rust | \u{1f425} | |
| Swift | \u{1F425} | |
| PHP | \u{1F425} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%A5 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 A5 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC25 | |
| Base64 | 8J+QpQ== | |
| Decimal | 128037 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🐥
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “front-facing baby chick”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f425and Enter. - HTML — paste
🐥.
How 🐥 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🐥Apple
- 🐥Segoe
- 🐥Noto
- 🐥System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🐥 front-facing baby chick emoji mean?+
🐥 is the front-facing baby chick emoji, tagged animal, baby and bird. Birds do steady symbolic work: 🕊️ for peace and condolences, 🦅 for American patriotism, 🦉 for night owls and study posts, 🐔 for calling someone a coward. 🦩 flamingo and 🦚 peacock get used for aesthetic rather than ornithology. The newest member, 🐦🔥 phoenix, is a ZWJ sequence joining bird and fire, added in Emoji 15.1.
What is the Unicode code for 🐥?+
front-facing baby chick is U+1F425. In HTML that is 🐥, in CSS \1F425, and in JavaScript \u{1F425}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐥 emoji added?+
front-facing baby chick got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Birds in Animals & Nature.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐥 front-facing baby chick.