U+1F931 "🤱" Breast-Feeding Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🤱
U+1F931 "🤱" Breast-Feeding is a pictographic representation of a parent holding an infant to their chest, symbolizing the act of nursing or feeding a baby directly from the breast. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0, it serves as an inclusive digital icon that depicts a caregiver providing nourishment and comfort to a child, often used in texts and social media to represent motherhood, bonding, and the natural process of breastfeeding. The design varies slightly across platforms but consistently shows a figure cradling a small baby, emphasizing a tender and intimate moment of care.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F931 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Breast-Feeding |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA4 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F931 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd31 |