U+1F466 "👦" Boy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
👦
U+1F466 "👦" Boy is a pictographic symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, representing a human child with short hair, typically interpreted as a young male. It is part of the larger set of emoji characters designed for use in digital communication, allowing users to convey concepts of youth, childhood, or a male child in text messages, social media, and other platforms. This character, like other emoji, is rendered in various styles across different operating systems and devices, but universally depicts a boy’s face or head, often with a neutral or smiling expression.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F466 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Boy |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 👦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 👦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC66 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F466 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc66 |