Family: woman, boy, boy Emoji

People

A composite emoji depicting a mother standing with her two sons. This icon is created by combining the woman emoji, the boy emoji, and the boy emoji using a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to display them as a single cohesive unit.

Usage Context

Used to represent a single-parent household, motherhood, or simply sharing a photo or story about one's own children. It is frequently sent during family-oriented holidays or when discussing parenting life. It often appears alongside other family configurations like 👩‍👧‍👧 or 👨‍👦‍👦 to signify different group dynamics.

History

The ability to create complex family groupings through ZWJ sequences was introduced to the Unicode standard in 2015. This update was a major push to move away from generic, non-specific silhouettes toward more diverse representations of modern family structures in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👩‍👦‍👦

Unicode

U+1F469 U+200D U+1F466 U+200D U+1F466

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_200d_1f466_200d_1f466:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;‍&#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.

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