People & Body · Emoji 2.0
👨👨👦Family Man, Man, Boy Emoji
👨👨👦 shows a two-dad family with their son. People send it for adoption news, Father’s Day, or just showing off their family with pride.
It shows two men standing with a little boy between them, added in 2015 when Unicode expanded family emoji beyond the default mom-dad-kid setup.
- Unicode
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :man-
man- boy: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 👨👨👦 Family Man, Man, Boy emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Family Man, Man, Boy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the family man, man, boy as 5 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Family Man, 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-man-boy:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the family man, man, boy, code point U+1F468.
04 — How to type
How to type the 👨👨👦 Family Man, Man, Boy emoji
No picker to hand? The family man, man, boy can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Family Man, Man, Boy emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the family man, 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, Man, Boy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around family man, 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What 👨👨👦 means in other countries
A two-father household with a son — accurate and unremarkable in many countries, but politically loaded or blocked in others.
falls under “LGBT propaganda” or public-morality rules; some apps hide or filter it there
used plainly as a literal family label, no extra charge attached
some global brands avoid it to sidestep region-by-region content rules
Before you send it: Fine for a chat with someone you know; think twice before using it in mass content aimed at restrictive regions.
09 — Apps
What 👨👨👦 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
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, Man, Boy
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 · added 2015
Shortcode: :man-man-boy:
👨👨👦 shows a two-dad family with their son.
Unicode name: Kiss Woman, Man
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 · added 2015
Shortcode: :woman-kiss-man:
Generally, it means someone is expressing romantic feelings or a desire for a romantic connection.
12 — History
Where the 👨👨👦 Family Man, Man, Boy emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 2.0, the family man, man, boy has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F468 U+200D 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, Man, Boy was approved as U+1F468 U+200D U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 and shipped in Emoji 2.0 (2015). 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