Child: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A head-and-shoulders portrait of a child with medium-dark skin, featuring neutral, wide-open eyes and a simple, rounded facial structure. This icon represents youth and childhood without specifying a particular gender.

Usage Context

Used to discuss parenting, childhood memories, or to identify younger members of a family. It is frequently paired with other skin tone variations like 🧒 or 🧒🏻 to represent a diverse group of kids. It is also a go-to for referencing the 'inner child' or expressing innocence in a conversation.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the effort to bring skin tone diversity to human-centric icons in Unicode 11.0 in 2018. It relies on the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines the base gender-neutral child icon with a specific skin tone modifier to provide a more inclusive experience for global users.

Details

Glyph

🧒🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D2 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d2_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD2;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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