Meaning
A young male child, often used to represent a son, grandson, or young boy.
Category: People & Body
👦boy
👦 boy belongs to People & Body. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:boy:
Keywords
bright eyedchildgrandsonkidsonyoungyoungerboy
What does 👦 boy mean?
The boy emoji depicts a young male child and is often used to represent sons, grandsons, or young boys in general. Depending on context, it can refer to a specific child in someone's life or be used more broadly to talk about childhood, youth, or parenting. It is frequently paired with other family emojis to describe family dynamics.
Often used for
- Talking about a son or grandson
- Discussing children or childhood
- Describing a young male character or student
- Pairing with the girl emoji to represent siblings or kids in general
Tone: Generally neutral and affectionate, though context matters when discussing age or gender. It is best kept to literal references to young boys rather than used for adult men.
Illustrative message examples with 👦
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- picking up the 👦 from school soon
- my 👦 is growing up so fast
- taking the 👦 to the park later
- he's such a good 👦
- got two 👦 and one 👧
Combos, text art & scenes with 👦
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👨👩👧👦🏠
👦🏻👧🏻
👩👶👦
🥋👴🏽👦🏽🥇
👴👨👩👦👵
👩🤝👨👩👧👦
💰😩l👁👨👦
Emoji scenes
It’s Raining Men
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Carnival Fun
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How 👦 boy looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
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👦 boy codes for developers
Every format below produces 👦 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 👦 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F466 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 👦 | |
| HTML (hex) | 👦 | |
| CSS | \1F466 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F466} | |
| JSON | \uD83D\uDC66 | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%A6 | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :boy: |
👦 in other languages
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Source: Unicode CLDR