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:family_man_boy:U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466👨‍👦\1F468\200D\1F466"\u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F466}"%F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%91%A6A father and a son. It stands for a dad-and-son relationship or a single father with one boy.
Dads use it for father-son outings, fishing trips, and Father's Day posts, and sons use it to tag their dad. It can also show an uncle with a nephew or a big brother looking after a little one.
Family: man, boy ๐จโ๐ฆ is an emoji in the people and body category, under family. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐จ man and ๐ฆ boy. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :family_man_boy:. People also look for it with words like โboyโ, โchildโ, โfamilyโ, or โmanโ.
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