👦🏾
What 👦🏾 means
👦🏾 is the Boy emoji with the medium-dark skin tone applied — same meaning and uses, in the tone that looks like you.
Less about one specific kid than a stand-in for boyhood in general — the little brother in a photo, the classmate in a story, whoever fits.
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person
- Codepoints
U+1F466 U+1F3FE- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:boy_tone4:Discord- Keywords
- boy, bright-eyed, child, grandson, kid, medium-dark skin tone, son, young, younger
- Variant of
- 👦 boy · how tone modifiers work
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 👦🏾 Boy: Medium-dark Skin Tone or 🧖♀️ Woman in Steamy Room?
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