Boy: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young boy with medium-dark skin, sporting a classic short, neat haircut. The face features a neutral expression and round eyes, representing a young male child.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent a son, a younger brother, or a childhood self in conversation. It is often grouped with related family icons like 👧🏾, 👨🏾, or 👩🏾 to build a digital family tree or identify the members of a household in text messages.

History

While the base character was introduced in early versions of Unicode, the medium-dark skin tone variant was added in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update. This release was a major shift for the platform, introducing the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers to ensure that digital representations of people more accurately reflected global human diversity.

Details

Glyph

👦🏾

Unicode

U+1F466 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f466_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC66;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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