People & Body · Emoji 4.0
👨👦Family Man, Boy Emoji
👨👦 shows a dad and his son. It’s used for single fathers, custody weekends, or just a proud father-son moment.
It shows one man with a boy, added in 2016 as Unicode filled in single-parent versions of the family set.
- Unicode
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :man-
boy: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 👨👦 Family Man, Boy emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Family Man, Boy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F468 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your family man, boy looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Family Man, Boy emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :man-boy:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the family man, boy, code point U+1F468.
04 — How to type
How to type the 👨👦 Family Man, Boy emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Family Man, Boy emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the family man, boy as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Family Man, Boy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around family man, boy for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 👨👦 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 👨👦 means in other countries
A father and son, read literally everywhere — no cultural variation, just a smaller family unit than the default combos.
used to represent a specific dad-and-son household, sometimes after divorce or loss
can simply mean “just the two of us” for a father-son outing or trip
Before you send it: Use it whenever the literal family fits; there's no subtext or regional variation to manage.
09 — Apps
What 👨👦 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the family man, boy lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
👨👦 vs 👨👨👧👧 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Family Man, Boy
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-boy:
👨👦 shows a dad and his son.
Unicode name: Family Man, Man, Girl, Girl
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F468 U+200D U+1F467 U+200D U+1F467 · added 2015
Shortcode: :man-man-girl-girl:
👨👨👧👧 shows a two-dad family raising two daughters.
12 — History
Where the 👨👦 Family Man, Boy emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Family Man, Boy was approved as U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👨👦 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ