U+1F424 "🐤" Baby Chick Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐤
U+1F424 "🐤" Baby Chick is a pictographic glyph representing a small, newly hatched bird, specifically a baby chicken, and is classified under the “Smileys & Emotion” category and the “animal-bird” subcategory within the Unicode Standard. It visually depicts a round, yellow chick seen from the front or side, often with a tiny beak and open wings, symbolizing new life, spring, innocence, and cuteness in digital communication. This character is widely used in texts, social media, and messaging apps to express joy, tenderness, or the arrival of something small and precious, and it belongs to the Emoji version 1.0 set released in 2015.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F424 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Baby Chick |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🐤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🐤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F424 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc24 |