Boy

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Shortcode: :boy:
Unicode: U+1F466
HTML: 👦
CSS: \1F466
JavaScript: "\u{1F466}"
URL: %F0%9F%91%A6

bright-eyed child grandson kid son young younger

What 👦 means

A young boy. 👦 stands for a son, a grandson, or boys and boyhood in general.

Parents use it in family updates and birthday posts. It also appears in family-role chains such as 👨‍👩‍👦. For a gender-neutral kid, 🧒 is the alternative.

Facts

Boy 👦 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 15 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :boy:. People also look for it with words like “bright-eyed”, “child”, “grandson”, or “kid”.