Boy Emoji

People

A cartoon-style face of a young male with short, dark hair. The depiction shows a generic, youthful appearance, capturing the features of a school-aged child or adolescent.

Usage Context

Used to represent sons, young brothers, or children in general. It is frequently employed in family-oriented status updates or to distinguish gender within a group of friends. Users often pair it with 👧 to represent a pair of children or alongside 👨 to signify a father-son dynamic.

History

This emoji originated from early Japanese mobile carrier sets, which sought to represent common family members and demographic groups within a single, character-based format. It was formally standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as part of a broader push to increase the diversity of human representations in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👦

Unicode

U+1F466

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f466:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC66;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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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