Family: man, boy, boy Emoji

People

A composite emoji depicting a father standing with two young sons. The image clearly displays an adult male figure alongside two children, representing a specific family unit consisting of a single parent and two male offspring.

Usage Context

This is frequently used to discuss parenting, family activities, or to identify the specific makeup of a household. It is a popular choice for social media captions about fatherhood, school runs, or sports practices. It serves as a direct alternative to the standard 👨‍👩‍👦 or 👨‍👩‍👧 family variations.

History

This emoji was created using the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which stitches together individual existing character glyphs to form a single cohesive image. This method was implemented by the Unicode Consortium to increase diversity and represent a wider array of family structures without needing to create thousands of individual, static character files.

Details

Glyph

👨‍👦‍👦

Unicode

U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 U+200D U+1F466

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f466_200d_1f466:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC66;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC66;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.

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