People & Body · Emoji 2.0
👨👩👦Family Man, Woman, Boy Emoji
A family made up of a man, a woman, and a boy. Used to represent your own family, talk about parenting, or reference a household with one son.
One of the original family emoji from 2015, part of Unicode’s early effort to represent different household makeups beyond a generic couple.
- Unicode
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F469 U+200D U+1F466
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :man-
woman- boy: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 👨👩👦 Family Man, Woman, Boy emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Family Man, Woman, Boy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F468. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Family Man, Woman, Boy emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man-woman-boy:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F468.
04 — How to type
How to type the 👨👩👦 Family Man, Woman, Boy emoji
No picker to hand? The family man, woman, boy can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Family Man, Woman, Boy emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the family man, woman, 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, Woman, Boy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around family man, woman, 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
The default “nuclear family” glyph — read literally almost everywhere as a father, mother, and son.
used as shorthand for “family” in general, not this specific configuration
neutral even in formal settings, e.g. announcing parental leave
Before you send it: Safe as a general “family” stand-in; just know it won't match every household it's sent to.
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, Woman, Boy
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F469 U+200D U+1F466 · added 2015
Shortcode: :man-woman-boy:
A family made up of a man, a woman, and a boy.
Unicode name: Couple with Heart Man, Man
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F468 · added 2015
Shortcode: :man-heart-man:
Generally, 👨❤️👨 means someone is expressing love and affection for a male partner.
12 — History
Where the 👨👩👦 Family Man, Woman, 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+1F469 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, Woman, Boy was approved as U+1F468 U+200D U+1F469 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