Meet the boy: medium-light skin tone emoji (👦🏼)—your go-to for sons, little bros, the 'inner child' you unleash when you order chicken tendies, or for calling out grown-ups behaving like kids. It reads as youthful, friendly, and a bit innocent, so it pops up in proud parent captions, back-to-school pics, and throwback posts where you say 'this was me at 9, bowl cut and all.' It also swings sarcastic: pair it with 'sir, you're 30' to roast childish antics, or drop it in a group chat to label someone 'lil man' after they rage-quit a game. In meme land, it can tag 'the boys' with a wink, or underscore 'boy math' takes that sound like recess logic. And yes, it’s safe for wholesome vibes too—new nephew announcement, soccer practice updates, or 'protect the rookie' sports fandom moments.
On Apple/iOS, the boy is front-facing with soft gradients, short tidy brown hair, round eyes, and a small closed smile, typically wearing a blue shirt; the medium-light skin tone brings a warm beige complexion with gentle shading. There’s no hat or props—just a clean bust-up portrait that feels a little 3D and glossy. Those instantly recognizable iOS highlights make it look fresh-faced, like a school photo where he actually smiled. People also use it flirt-adjacent in a cutesy 'baby boy' tone, or dramatically—'he’s just a boy!'—for comedic effect. Whether wholesome, ironic, or chaotic, 👦🏼 adds instant kid-core energy to your messages.
The Boy emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3516 of 2393 |
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| 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Light Brown Boy |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F466, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128102, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 A6, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 246, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC66, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc66, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56422, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F466 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F466, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128102, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F466\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xa6\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC66\uD83C\uDFFC" |
