Boy: light skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoon portrait of a young boy with light skin and dark hair. The figure features a simple, friendly face, representing a male child or a youth in a gender-specific manner.

Usage Context

Used to denote family members, childhood, or a younger brother or son. People often use this alongside other family-related emojis like 👧🏻 or 👨‍👩‍👦 to build out a family tree or discuss childhood memories and parenting experiences.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the Unicode 6.0 release in 2010. The modifier system, which allows the user to select specific skin tones, was added later in 2015 to provide more inclusive representation across the global digital landscape, replacing the original generic yellow characters.

Details

Glyph

👦🏻

Unicode

U+1F466 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f466_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC66;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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