Breast-feeding emoji 🤱
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F931
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤱 means
Breast-feeding 🤱 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: baby, breast, feeding, mom, mother, nursing, woman.
Those words also drive emoji search: try baby or breast on your phone to find 🤱.
On the emoji keyboard, 🤱 sits with the jobs and roles (82 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example 👩🍼 👨🍼 🧑🍼 🧑⚕️.
You can send 🤱 in 5 skin tones (🤱🏻 to 🤱🏿) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will 🤱 show on my friend's phone?
🤱 dates from Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🤱
To find 🤱 quickly, type breast-feeding into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type breast-feeding.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type breast-feeding in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type breast-feeding.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🤱 as one code point, U+1F931: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F931 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤱 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤱 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F931"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F931} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%B1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 B1 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🤱 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | breast-feeding |
| Português | amamentando |
| Español | lactancia materna |
| Italiano | allattare |
| Français | allaitement |
| Deutsch | Stillen |
| Türkçe | emziren kadın |
| Bahasa Indonesia | menyusui |
| Polski | karmienie piersią |
| Русский | кормление грудью |
| 日本語 | 授乳 |
| 한국어 | 모유 수유 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the breast-feeding emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤱 "breast-feeding" and links it with baby, breast, feeding, mom. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the jobs and roles subgroup of people & body.
When was the breast-feeding emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🤱?
Yes. 🤱 has these skin tones: 🤱🏻 🤱🏼 🤱🏽 🤱🏾 🤱🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.