🧑🧒
What 🧑🧒 means
A family of one adult and one child, drawn as simple gender-neutral figures. This emoji arrived in Emoji 15.1 (September 2023) as part of a thoughtful redesign of family emojis: instead of prescribing mom-dad-kids combinations, the new set shows families as silhouettes that anyone can see themselves in.
Single parents, two moms, two dads, grandparents raising grandkids — the neutral figures make room for all of it without needing fifty separate emojis.
How and when to use it
- Family updates without the labels: "Movie night with the whole crew 🧑🧒"
- Perfect for announcements where the shape of the family is the point: "And then there were more 🧑🧒"
- Use it alongside 🏡❤️ for home-and-family posts of every kind.
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-symbol
- Codepoints
U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9D2- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.1
- Shortcodes
:family_adult_child:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- adult, child, family
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
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 — 🧑🧒 Family: Adult, Child or 🇦🇲 Flag: Armenia?