👪Family Emoji
Generally, the 👪 emoji means family. People use it to express feelings of love, connection, and support related to family members.
The 👪 emoji shows a family with parents and children holding hands.
- Unicode
- U+1F46A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :family:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 👪 Family emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 1.
Family emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the family as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Family 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 :family:.
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+1F46A.
How to type the 👪 Family emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Family emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the family as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Family emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around family for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👪, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👪 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 👪 means in other countries
A generic family symbol that reads consistently as warmth and togetherness, regardless of the actual makeup of anyone's household.
Standard way to reference family gatherings and get-togethers.
Used loosely for close friends treated like family too.
Common icon for family-oriented products or messages.
Before you send it: Safe everywhere — nobody reads a specific family structure into the icon itself.
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.
Emojis similar to the Family emoji
Same family (person-symbol) — often confused with family or used alongside it.
Fingerprint
🗣Speaking Head
👤Bust in Silhouette
👥Busts in Silhouette
🫂People Hugging
Family Adult, Adult, Child
Family Adult, Adult, Child, Child
Family Adult, Child
Family Adult, Child, Child
👋Waving Hand
🤚Raised Back of Hand
Collections 👪 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
👪 vs 🧑🧑🧒 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Family
Code: U+1F46A · added 2010
Shortcode: :family:
Generally, the 👪 emoji means family.
Unicode name: Family Adult, Adult, Child
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9D2 · added 2023
Shortcode: :family_adult_adult_child:
🧑🧑🧒 shows a gender-neutral two-parent family with a child.
Where the 👪 Family emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F46A 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👪 existed there as
KDDI au E501.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Family was approved as U+1F46A and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👪 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.