Child: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoon-style face of a young child with dark skin, short hair, and wide, expressive eyes. It represents youth, childhood, or a person in their early developmental years without specifying a gender.

Usage Context

Frequently used to discuss family, parenting, or childhood memories. It is often paired with family-related emojis like 👨‍👩‍👧 or 👶 to indicate a younger member of a household. It acts as a gender-neutral alternative when referring to a son or daughter.

History

The base emoji for a child was added to the Unicode standard in 2017. The dark skin tone variant uses the Fitzpatrick scale modifier, which was implemented to allow users to better represent human diversity in digital communication across global platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧒🏿

Unicode

U+1F9D2 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d2_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD2;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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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