baby: medium-dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F476 1F3FE
Description
A baby emoji with medium-dark skin tone. It depicts a small human infant, often wrapped in a blanket or swaddled, looking innocent and childlike.
Group:
People & Body > person
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents infancy, new life, innocence, cuteness, and sometimes vulnerability or needing protection.
Backstory
The base baby emoji (👶) was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010). The skin tone modifier (🏾) was introduced in Unicode 8.0 (2015) as part of an effort to provide more diverse representations for human emojis.
Usage Examples
- Announcing a birth: 'Welcome to the world, little one! 👶🏾'
- Referring to an infant: 'The baby just woke up. 👶🏾'
- Expressing something is cute: 'Look at that tiny puppy! 👶🏾 So adorable!'
- Referring to a very young or inexperienced person: 'He's still a baby when it comes to coding. 👶🏾'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used to represent literal babies, parenthood, or childhood nostalgia. May also symbolize new beginnings.
Middle Eastern culture:
Sometimes used in celebratory contexts for newborns, with stronger emphasis on family blessings.
African culture:
May carry additional cultural significance related to ancestry, community ties, or traditional naming ceremonies.