Boy: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoon-style face of a young male child with short brown hair and a medium skin tone. The character wears a simple expression, conveying youth and innocence.

Usage Context

Frequently used to represent children, family members like a son or grandson, or to describe childhood memories. It is often combined with other family-related emojis like 👧🏽 or 👨🏽 to illustrate family structures or to signify someone is acting immaturely.

History

The base boy emoji was first added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The option for skin tone modifiers was introduced in 2015 as part of an industry-wide push to make digital communication more inclusive and reflective of the global population.

Details

Glyph

👦🏽

Unicode

U+1F466 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f466_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC66;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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