Child: light skin tone Emoji

People

A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young child with a light skin tone and neutral, open-eyed expression. The hair is styled in a simple, generic bob that fits any gender representation.

Usage Context

Used to represent children, youth, or the concept of being a kid. It is frequently featured in conversations about parenting, family milestones, or discussing the younger generation. It serves as a gender-neutral alternative to 👦 or 👧 and is often grouped with 🧒🏼, 🧒🏽, 🧒🏾, and 🧒🏿 to show skin tone variety.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0. This character was developed to fill a gap in digital communication by providing a non-gendered representation of a minor, moving away from the binary icons that had dominated messaging apps for years.

Details

Glyph

🧒🏻

Unicode

U+1F9D2 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d2_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD2;&#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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