Deliberately generic, the child emoji is a simple, gender-neutral kid standing in for children as a group, not any child in particular. It covers your own kid, a school event, or just referring to 'the kids' as a category without needing to specify who.
What 🧒 means
A gender-neutral face of a child with neck-length hair and slight fringes sweeping across the forehead. This emoji signifies a sense of adventure, curiosity, playfulness, and innocence too. It is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If you're talking about a child; your own or someone else's, to your best friend or a trusted close one, use 🧒 in that context.
- You can also use 🧒 to wish someone a Happy Children's Day.
- 🧒 can also be used to describe someone or something as adventurous, full of fun, bubbly, or childish.
- If you're either texting someone or posting about your childhood crush, role model, celeb crush, anything, you can bring in the 🧒 emoji.
- If you're sharing 'Now and Then' (adulthood and childhood, of course) pics of you or someone special on social media or in DMs, send 🧒. You can pair it up with the 👨 Man or 👩 Woman emojis too.
Other Names
- 🧒 Kid
- 🧒 Childhood
- 🧒 Childish
- 🧒 Child-Like
- 🧒 Cool Kid
- 🧒 Adventurous
- 🧒 Curious
- 🧒 Energetic
- 🧒 Little Human
- 🧒 Gender Neutral Child
- 🧒 Children's Day
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person
- Codepoints
U+1F9D2- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0
- Shortcodes
:child:- Keywords
- bright-eyed, child, grandchild, kid, young, younger
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.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧒 Child or ⬆️ Up Arrow?