Family: man, boy, boy Emoji

People

A composite emoji depicting a father standing with two young sons. The image clearly displays an adult male figure alongside two children, representing a specific family unit consisting of a single parent and two male offspring.

Usage Context

This is frequently used to discuss parenting, family activities, or to identify the specific makeup of a household. It is a popular choice for social media captions about fatherhood, school runs, or sports practices. It serves as a direct alternative to the standard 👨‍👩‍👦 or 👨‍👩‍👧 family variations.

History

This emoji was created using the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which stitches together individual existing character glyphs to form a single cohesive image. This method was implemented by the Unicode Consortium to increase diversity and represent a wider array of family structures without needing to create thousands of individual, static character files.

Details

Glyph

👨‍👦‍👦

Unicode

U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 U+200D U+1F466

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f466_200d_1f466:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC66;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC66;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory family

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository