Family: man, boy Emoji
People
A composite emoji displaying a man standing next to a young boy. The figures are typically shown from the waist up, representing a father and his son.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to highlight fatherhood, parenting, or a bond between a male parent and his child. It is frequently sent during Father's Day, family gatherings, or when sharing photos of a child. It serves as a specific alternative to the broader 👨👩👧👦 family group emoji.
History
While the individual man and boy emojis have existed for years, this specific combination was introduced as part of the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence update in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. These sequences were created to allow users to represent diverse family structures that were previously missing from the standard character set.
Details
Glyph
👨👦
Unicode
U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f466:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory family
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
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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