Family: man, woman, girl, boy Emoji

People

A composite image featuring a man, a woman, a girl, and a boy standing side by side. This character represents the traditional nuclear family unit as seen in early media and domestic illustration.

Usage Context

Used to discuss family dynamics, parenting, outings, or general domestic life. It is often used in social media posts to share photos of relatives or to signify family-oriented events, acting as a shorthand for the group often associated with the 🏠 emoji.

History

This emoji was created by combining individual family member characters using a Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, which was introduced to allow platforms to render complex groups as a single, cohesive unit. It represents the ongoing effort to make digital representation more inclusive of various family structures.

Details

Glyph

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Unicode

U+1F468 U+200D U+1F469 U+200D U+1F467 U+200D U+1F466

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f469_200d_1f467_200d_1f466:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC69;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC67;‍&#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

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