People & Body · Emoji 4.0
👩👦Family Woman, Boy Emoji
👩👦 shows a mom and her son. It’s used for single mothers, often celebrating a strong bond or Mother’s Day.
It shows one woman with a boy, added in 2016 as Unicode built out single-parent options.
- Unicode
- U+1F469 U+200D U+1F466
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :woman-
boy: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 👩👦 Family Woman, Boy emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Family Woman, Boy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F469. 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 Woman, Boy emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :woman-boy:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F469.
04 — How to type
How to type the 👩👦 Family Woman, Boy emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Family Woman, Boy emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the family 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 Woman, Boy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around family 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
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 mother and son, read literally in every context — one of the more common single-parent family emoji.
represents a specific mom-and-son household, often after a divorce or loss
can simply mean “just us two” for a planned mother-son outing
Before you send it: Send it whenever it matches the actual household; there's no subtext to manage here.
09 — Apps
What 👩👦 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the family woman, 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 Woman, Boy
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F466 · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-boy:
👩👦 shows a mom and her son.
Unicode name: Family Woman, Woman, Girl, Girl
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F469 U+200D U+1F467 U+200D U+1F467 · added 2015
Shortcode: :woman-woman-girl-girl:
👩👩👧👧 shows a two-mom family raising two daughters.
12 — History
Where the 👩👦 Family 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+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 Woman, Boy was approved as U+1F469 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