U+1F466 U+1F3FF

👦🏿 Boy: dark skin tone

Skin tone A click copies the symbol with the chosen tone — no need to open a separate page.

boy bright-eyed child dark skin tone grandson kid son young younger

Subcategory
People
Shortcode
Unicode version
8.0 (2015)
Emoji version
1.0 (2015)
Status
fully-qualified

What 👦🏿 is made of

This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.

  1. 👦 boy U+1F466
  2. 🏿 skin tone U+1F3FF

Will your readers see 👦🏿

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

  • Apple always there
  • Google always there
  • Microsoft always there
  • Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the 👦🏿 emoji is used

The 👦🏿 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how boy: dark skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English boy: dark skin tone
Русский мальчик: очень темный тон кожи
Deutsch Junge: dunkle Hautfarbe
Español niño: tono de piel oscuro
Français garçon : peau foncée
Polski chłopiec: karnacja ciemna
Dansk dreng: mørk teint
Українська хлопчик: темний тон шкіри
Português menino: pele escura

Unicode CLDR 48