A mother and her son. It stands for the mom-and-son bond or a single mother raising a boy.
Moms use it for mother-son dances, school pickups, and Mother's Day posts. Sons use it to thank their mom, and it suits proud โboy momโ captions.
Facts
Family: woman, boy ๐ฉโ๐ฆ 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 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_woman_boy:. People also look for it with words like โboyโ, โchildโ, โfamilyโ, or โwomanโ.
Made of
๐ฉ+๐ฆ=๐ฉโ๐ฆ
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
Design history
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 4.0