Family: woman, woman, boy, boy Emoji

People

A composite emoji displaying four figures: two women and two boys. It serves as a visual shorthand for a family unit headed by a lesbian couple with two sons.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent modern family structures, celebrate pride, or discuss parenting and domestic life. It is frequently grouped with other variants like 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 or 👩‍👩‍👧 to depict diverse family configurations in digital conversations.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 8.0, released in 2015. These sequences allowed systems to combine individual character codes—like a woman, a boy, and the ZWJ character—to create complex, single-glyph representations that were previously unsupported.

Details

Glyph

👩‍👩‍👦‍👦

Unicode

U+1F469 U+200D U+1F469 U+200D U+1F466 U+200D U+1F466

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_200d_1f469_200d_1f466_200d_1f466:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC69;‍&#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

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