Boy: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoon-style face of a young boy with short, brown hair, featuring a medium-light skin tone. He is depicted with a neutral, pleasant expression, often appearing in messaging apps as a generic representation of a male child.

Usage Context

Used to represent sons, grandsons, students, or children in casual conversation. It is frequently combined with family-related emojis like 👨 or 👶 to build out a family tree or to describe childhood experiences.

History

The base character of the boy was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The capability to modify this icon with specific skin tones was later added in 2015 with Unicode 8.0, allowing for more inclusive representation across global user bases.

Details

Glyph

👦🏼

Unicode

U+1F466 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f466_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC66;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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