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Meaning & usage
What does the Hatching Chick emoji mean?
A chick emerging from a cracked shell, caught halfway out.
New and slightly comic. The chick is caught halfway out, so it suits beginnings better than arrivals that are already complete.
How to use 🐣 naturally
Easter, spring, new arrivals and anything just beginning.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of 🐣
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Hatching Chick was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A chick with the shell broken around its middle, caught mid-emergence. Three chick emoji exist showing successive stages, and this is the second of them.
- Today
How its use evolved
Easter, spring, new arrivals and anything just beginning.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🐣 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
First week at the new job 🐣
They finally hatched overnight 🐣
Brand new and slightly terrified 🐣
When to use it
Using 🐣 clearly
Easter, spring, new arrivals and anything just beginning. It lands as chick emoji or 🐣 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the hatching chick emoji
What does 🐣 mean in a text message?
A chick emerging from a cracked shell, caught halfway out. New and slightly comic. The chick is caught halfway out, so it suits beginnings better than arrivals that are already complete.
Is 🐣 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are chick emoji, 🐣 meaning, hatching chick emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🐣 look different on another device?
U+1F423 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the hatching chick emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🐣 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the hatching chick emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🐣 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🐣 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F423 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🐣 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐣 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F423 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F423} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%90%A3 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F423
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- chick emoji🐣 meaninghatching chick emoji
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