Family: man, boy emoji ๐จโ๐ฆ
Emoji 4.0 (2016) ยท U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466
What ๐จโ๐ฆ means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Family: man, boy ๐จโ๐ฆ is tagged with these keywords: boy, child, family, man.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing boy or child in the emoji search brings up ๐จโ๐ฆ.
Family: man, boy ๐จโ๐ฆ is one of 37 emoji in the families and couples subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to ๐จโ๐ฆโ๐ฆ ๐จโ๐ง ๐จโ๐งโ๐ฆ ๐จโ๐งโ๐ง.
Will ๐จโ๐ฆ show on my friend's phone?
๐จโ๐ฆ arrived with Emoji 4.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
What ๐จโ๐ฆ is made of
Technically ๐จโ๐ฆ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): ๐จ man + ๐ฆ boy. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type ๐จโ๐ฆ
Any emoji picker finds ๐จโ๐ฆ when you search for family: man, boy.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type family: man, boy.
- Mac: press Ctrl+โ+Space and type family: man, boy in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type family: man, boy.
Codes for developers
Family: man, boy ๐จโ๐ฆ is written with 3 code points: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466. In UTF-8 it takes 11 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 5.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 👨‍👦 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 👨‍👦 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F468 \200D \1F466"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F468}\u200D\u{1F466} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%91%A6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 A8 E2 80 8D F0 9F 91 A6 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ๐จโ๐ฆ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | family: man, boy |
| Portuguรชs | famรญlia: homem e menino |
| Espaรฑol | familia: hombre y niรฑo |
| Italiano | famiglia: uomo e bambino |
| Franรงais | familleโฏ: homme et garรงon |
| Deutsch | Familie: Mann, Junge |
| Tรผrkรงe | aile: erkek erkek รงocuk |
| Bahasa Indonesia | keluarga: pria, anak laki-laki |
| Polski | rodzina: mฤลผczyzna i chลopiec |
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ัะตะผัั: ะผัะถัะธะฝะฐ ะผะฐะปััะธะบ |
| ๆฅๆฌ่ช | ๅฎถๆ: ็ทๆง ็ทใฎๅญ |
| ํ๊ตญ์ด | ๊ฐ์กฑ: ๋จ์ ๋จ์ ์์ด |
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What does the family: man, boy emoji mean?
Unicode calls ๐จโ๐ฆ "family: man, boy" and links it with boy, child, family, man. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the families and couples subgroup of people & body.
When was the family: man, boy emoji added?
In Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
Why does ๐จโ๐ฆ sometimes show as separate emoji?
It is a combination of ๐จ + ๐ฆ joined by an invisible zero width joiner. Phones that do not know the combined emoji yet show the pieces one by one.