Child emoji
Type :child: · People & body
Unicode name Child · added in Emoji 5.0, 2017
What 🧒 means
A child, without a specified gender. The neutral option in a set that spent years offering only 👦 and 👧.
How to type 🧒 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :chil
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 🧒 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:child: Search terms
Also found by searching bright-eyed, grandchild, kid, young, younger.
Skin tones for 🧒
Child comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 🧒 in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 🧒🏻 light 🧒🏼 medium-light 🧒🏽 medium 🧒🏾 medium-dark 🧒🏿 dark 🧒 in HTML, CSS and code
Child is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D2
- HTML
- 🧒
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F9D2}'
- CSS content
- "\1F9D2"
- Python
- '\U0001F9D2'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%A7%92
Related emojis
:boy: 👧 :girl: 👶 :baby: 👋 :wave: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: ✋️ :high_five: 🖖 :vulcan: 🫱 :rightwards_hand: 🫴 :palm_up: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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