The boy: medium-dark skin tone emoji is your go-to for kid energy—think little bro, “my lil man,” class-picture grin, and proud-parent posts. It’s frequently used to represent a son, nephew, or younger self, and it fits right into captions about first days of school, birthday parties, or that hilarious thing the kid just said at dinner. Online, it can flex a few personalities: wholesome (Black boy joy!), playful (ya boy reporting live), or lightly shady—“this boy really…” when someone’s acting childish. People also drop it next to 🎒, 🏀, or 🎮 to telegraph school, sports practice, or gaming marathons.
On Apple/iOS, the icon is a front-facing, head-and-shoulders kid with a calm smile, round eyes, short dark hair, and a clean blue T-shirt, lit with Apple’s soft gradient shading. No hat, no props—just that unmistakable blue tee and neutral, friendly expression that reads “picture day, but chill.” The medium-dark tone adds representation that users choose to match themselves or family in selfies, family threads, or mother–son/father–son posts (often paired with 👩🏾 or 👨🏾 for instant family vibes). Sarcastically, it doubles as a punchline for “boys will be boys” jokes, and playfully, it sometimes stands in for “your boy” in hip-hop-influenced captions. It’s simple, recognizable, and endlessly remixable across memes, from “the boys” group-chat energy to wholesome kid reactions.
The Boy emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3518 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Deeper Brown 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F466, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128102, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 A6, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 246, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC66, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc66, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56422, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F466 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F466, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128102, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F466\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xa6\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC66\uD83C\uDFFE" |
