Child: light skin tone Emoji
People
A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young child with a light skin tone and neutral, open-eyed expression. The hair is styled in a simple, generic bob that fits any gender representation.
Usage Context
Used to represent children, youth, or the concept of being a kid. It is frequently featured in conversations about parenting, family milestones, or discussing the younger generation. It serves as a gender-neutral alternative to 👦 or 👧 and is often grouped with 🧒🏼, 🧒🏽, 🧒🏾, and 🧒🏿 to show skin tone variety.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0. This character was developed to fill a gap in digital communication by providing a non-gendered representation of a minor, moving away from the binary icons that had dominated messaging apps for years.
Details
Glyph
🧒🏻
Unicode
U+1F9D2 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d2_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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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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