A yellow baby chicken (chick), hatching from an egg and seeing the world for the first time. Broadly depicted with an orange beak, facing forward in the cracked bottom half of a white egg, generally shown flapping its wings with a cute facial expression.

Often used with an affectionate tone. May be used to represent various types of babies, avian or human, and, by extension, childbirth more generally. Relatedly, often used to represent new beginnings, spring and Easter. May also be used to represent chicken-related foods (e.g., poultry, eggs) or slang senses of chick.

Not to be confused with 🐤 Baby Chick or 🐥 Front-Facing Baby Chick (out of its egg), though their applications overlap. See also 🐔 Chicken and 🐓 Rooster.

Twitter and Facebook's designs do not include flapping wings. Google's design previously featured small elements around the chick's head that could be interpreted either as fragments of the cracked eggshell flying outward or as motion lines indicating flapping wings. Facebook's design previously showed part of the eggshell atop the chick's head, while early Microsoft designs faced left.

This emoji predates the inclusion and standardization of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by au by KDDI in 2003.

Hatching Chick was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.