🧒Child Emoji
Generally, the 🧒 emoji just means "child. " People use it to represent a young person in a simple, straightforward way.
The 🧒 emoji represents a child or young person.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D2
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :child:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🧒 Child emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
Child emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the child 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.
Child emoji skin tones
🧒 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Child 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 :child:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9D2.
How to type the 🧒 Child emoji
No picker to hand? The child can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Child emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Child emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around child 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
Who sent the child and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🧒 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the child lands changes how it is taken.
🧒 vs 🚸 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Child
Code: U+1F9D2 · added 2017
Shortcode: :child:
Generally, the 🧒 emoji just means "child.
Unicode name: Children Crossing
Code: U+1F6B8 · added 2015
Shortcode: :children_crossing:
Generally, it means there are children crossing the street nearby.
Where the 🧒 Child emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9D2 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.
Child was approved as U+1F9D2 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.