A father, a mother, and a son together. It stands for a family of three with one boy, or for family life in general.
Parents use it in bios, birth announcements for a baby boy, and holiday cards. It also tags a family trip or a weekend at home, as in โcamping with the ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ฆโ.
On phones that cannot join the sequence, it appears as three separate people in a row.
Facts
Family: man, woman, boy ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ฆ 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, ๐ฉ woman, 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_woman_boy:. People also look for it with words like โboyโ, โchildโ, โfamilyโ, or โmanโ.