Boy: medium skin tone is the young-dude emoji with a warm tan vibe, perfect for talking about sons, little brothers, nephews, students, or your own throwback self. It doubles as the 'I'm just a little guy' defense when you've caused minor chaos and want forgiveness with maximum cute energy. People drop it under babysitting stories, back-to-school posts, or when bragging about a kid's soccer hat trick. It also lands ironically in group chats to play innocent, soften hot takes, or tease someone who is acting, well, boyish. Think wholesome, naive, slightly mischievous vibesโbaby-faced but fully capable of swiping the last slice of pizza.
On Apple iOS, it's a front-facing bust of a young boy with short brown hair parted neatly to the side, round eyes, a small closed-mouth smile, and a blue crewneck top; the medium skin tone shows smooth shading and soft highlights. No props, no capโjust clean, studio-portrait lighting and that school-picture-day energy you'll recognize instantly. Other platforms tweak shirt color and styling, but the kid-next-door look stays the same. You'll see it used for 'boy math' jokes, to channel inner child moments, or to pad a message with puppy-eye innocence. Bonus meme move: pair it with pleading or sparkles to turn any apology into adorable chaos containment.
The Boy emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3517 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: | Olive Toned Boy |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐ฆ๐ฝ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐ฆ๐ฝ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👦 🏽 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👦 🏽 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f466, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F466, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128102, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 A6, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 246, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC66, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc66, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56422, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F466 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F466, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128102, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F466\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xa6\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC66\uD83C\uDFFD" |
