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👦Boy Emoji
Tagged bright-eyed, child and grandson, 👦 boy sits in Unicode's People group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F466.
What 👦 boy means
The base human figures, before any job, activity or gesture is attached. They mostly appear inside longer sequences, but on their own they cover life stages: baby, child, adult, older adult. Gender-neutral 🧒, 🧑 and 🧓 were added in 2017 alongside the existing man and woman forms rather than replacing them.
Unicode tags this one bright-eyed, child and grandson and files it under People & Body → People.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F466 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👦 | |
| HTML decimal | 👦 | |
| CSS | \1F466 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F466} | |
| Python | \U0001F466 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC66 | |
| Rust | \u{1f466} | |
| Swift | \u{1F466} | |
| PHP | \u{1F466} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%A6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 A6 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC66 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Rpg== | |
| Decimal | 128102 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 👦 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
- bright-eyed
- child
- grandson
- kid
- son
- young
- younger
Appears in these collections
How to type 👦
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “boy”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bright-eyed”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f466and Enter. - HTML — paste
👦.
How 👦 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 👦Apple
- 👦Segoe
- 👦Noto
- 👦System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 👦 boy emoji mean?+
👦 is the boy emoji, tagged bright-eyed, child and grandson. The base human figures, before any job, activity or gesture is attached. They mostly appear inside longer sequences, but on their own they cover life stages: baby, child, adult, older adult. Gender-neutral 🧒, 🧑 and 🧓 were added in 2017 alongside the existing man and woman forms rather than replacing them.
What is the Unicode code for 👦?+
boy is U+1F466. In HTML that is 👦, in CSS \1F466, and in JavaScript \u{1F466}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👦 emoji added?+
boy got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from People in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👦 boy.