Boy Emoji

People

A cartoon-style face of a young male with short, dark hair. The depiction shows a generic, youthful appearance, capturing the features of a school-aged child or adolescent.

Usage Context

Used to represent sons, young brothers, or children in general. It is frequently employed in family-oriented status updates or to distinguish gender within a group of friends. Users often pair it with 👧 to represent a pair of children or alongside 👨 to signify a father-son dynamic.

History

This emoji originated from early Japanese mobile carrier sets, which sought to represent common family members and demographic groups within a single, character-based format. It was formally standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as part of a broader push to increase the diversity of human representations in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👦

Unicode

U+1F466

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f466:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC66;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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