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👪️Family Emoji

Unicode added 👪️ family in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under People & Body → People Symbols. Its codepoint is U+1F46A U+FE0F, and it is tagged child.

What 👪️ family means

Abstracted people rather than specific ones. 👤 and 👥 do interface work - the default avatar, a placeholder, an anonymous account. 🗣️ marks someone talking loudly or quoting a bad take. 🫂 people hugging landed in 2020 and became a common reply to bad news, and the gender-neutral family sequences added in 2023 sit here too.

Unicode tags this one child and files it under People & Body → People Symbols.

Copy variants

family carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How 👪️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

👪U+1F46Afamily
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F46A U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`👪️`
HTML decimal	`👪️`
CSS	`\1F46A\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F46A}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0001F46A\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDC6A\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{1f46a}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{1F46A}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{1F46A}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%91%AA%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 91 AA EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DC6A FE0F`
Base64	`8J+Rqu+4jw==`
Decimal	`128106 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

child

Appears in these collections

How to type 👪️

Windows — press Win + . and search “family”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “child”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f46a and 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 👪️ family emoji mean?+

👪️ is the family emoji, tagged child. Abstracted people rather than specific ones. 👤 and 👥 do interface work - the default avatar, a placeholder, an anonymous account. 🗣️ marks someone talking loudly or quoting a bad take. 🫂 people hugging landed in 2020 and became a common reply to bad news, and the gender-neutral family sequences added in 2023 sit here too.

What is the Unicode code for 👪️?+

family is U+1F46A U+FE0F. In HTML that is 👪️, in CSS \1F46A\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F46A}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 👪️ emoji added?+

family 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.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👪️ family.