Front-facing baby chick
Emoji 1.0 ยท Animals & Nature ยท :hatched_chick:
Also known as: animal, baby, bird, chick, front-facing, newborn, ornithology
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Front-facing baby chick Means
People reach for ๐ฅ when they mean animal, baby, bird, chick, front-facing and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Front-facing baby chick is one of the animals & nature emoji, alongside ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ ๐ฃ ๐ค and 16 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Front-facing baby chick was added in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ฅ is the single code point U+1F425, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :hatched_chick:.
How To Use ๐ฅ
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :hatched_chick: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.