The boy: dark skin tone emoji is your go-to for “my little guy,” “baby bro,” and every adorable kid moment that deserves an awww. On Apple/iOS, he’s a front-facing bust with a gentle smile, big round eyes, short dark-brown hair with a neat fringe, and a blue crew‑neck shirt; with this tone applied, his skin is a rich deep brown, shaded smoothly for that glossy iOS look. No props, no chaos—just pure wholesome kid energy that screams first-day-of-school pics and proud-parent captions.
Online, people drop this emoji to represent sons, nephews, or the literal “little man” of the house, but it also moonlights as a playful drag when someone’s being childish—“act your age, not your emoji.” It pairs well with backpacks, pencils, and cookie emojis to tell a mini-story: homework, snack time, bedtime saga. In meme-land, it can nod to “boy math” (the innocent, literal version), “inner child” check-ins, or throwback threads about childhood haircuts your family will never let you forget. It’s also used for representation—celebrating Black boy joy, young kings, and family pride posts that make the timeline smile.
The Boy emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3519 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Black Boy |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👦🏿 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👦🏿 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👦 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👦 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f466, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F466, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128102, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 A6, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 246, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC66, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc66, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56422, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F466 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F466, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128102, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F466\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xa6\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC66\uD83C\uDFFF" |
