Two fathers and a son. It stands for a family with two dads and one boy.
Gay dads use it in bios, adoption and surrogacy announcements, and Father's Day posts. It also helps a child show their family in a school or friend chat.
If an app does not support the sequence, the three people show up one after another instead of as a group.
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Family: man, man, boy ๐จโ๐จโ๐ฆ is an emoji in the people and body category, under family. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 2.0, released in 2015. It is a sequence that joins ๐จ man, 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_man_boy:. People also look for it with words like โboyโ, โchildโ, โfamilyโ, or โmanโ.