Meaning
Two women and a boy child are shown together as a family unit, rendered with two adult female figures and one noticeably smaller child figure.
This represents same-sex female families with sons—a significant demographic that needed visual representation. Users display it to show their household, celebrate motherhood in queer partnerships, or simply to make their family visible in everyday digital communication. Whether the child is adopted, biological, or from a blended arrangement, this emoji provides straightforward, accurate representation.
The emoji serves both practical (showing who's in your household) and symbolic purposes (affirming LGBTQ+ families in mainstream digital spaces). It's particularly meaningful for lesbian and bisexual mothers raising sons, who can now represent their complete family dynamic without explanation or creative interpretation. It frequently appears in bios, Pride content, and family-focused posts.
Introduced as Unicode Emoji 2 in 2015, this combination was part of a transformative update that extended family representation to include same-sex female partnerships, giving millions of women and their children a way to see themselves reflected in the emoji sets they use daily.
Common Uses
- • Representing your same-sex female family with a son
- • Celebrating lesbian motherhood
- • Showing family diversity in bios and profiles
- • Expressing family identity and Pride
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
The introduction of same-sex family emoji received widespread support from LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and became a frequently cited example of how emoji design choices impact representation and visibility for marginalized communities.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:family_woman_woman_boy: :woman-woman-boy: :family_woman_woman_boy: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 👩‍👩‍👦 |
| HTML (hex) | 👩‍👩‍👦 |
| CSS | \1F469\200D\1F469\200D\1F466 |
| JavaScript | \uD83D\uDC69\u200D\uD83D\uDC69\u200D\uD83D\uDC66 |
| Python | \U0001F469\U0000200D\U0001F469\U0000200D\U0001F466 |
| Java | \uD83D\uDC69\u200D\uD83D\uDC69\u200D\uD83D\uDC66 |
| Perl | \x{1F469}\x{200D}\x{1F469}\x{200D}\x{1F466} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F469}\x{200D}\x{1F469}\x{200D}\x{1F466} |
| Punycode | xn--2quh-6bx-2quh-6bx-2que |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%91%A9%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%91%A9%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%91%A6 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA9 0xE2 0x80 0x8D 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA9 0xE2 0x80 0x8D 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA6 |
👩👩👦 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | পরিবার: মহিলা, মহিলা, ছেলে |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 家庭: 女人女人男孩 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 家庭:女人 女人 男孩 |
| Danish | familie: kvinde, kvinde og dreng |
| Dutch | gezin: vrouw, vrouw, jongen |
| English | family: woman, woman, boy |
| English (UK) | family: woman, woman, boy |
| Estonian | perekond: naine, naine, poiss |
| Finnish | perhe: nainen, nainen, poika |
| French | famille : femme, femme et garçon |
| German | Familie: Frau, Frau und Junge |
| Hindi | परिवार: महिला, महिला, लड़का |
| Hungarian | család: nő, nő és fiú |
| Italian | famiglia: donna, donna e bambino |
| Japanese | 家族: 女性 女性 男の子 |
| Korean | 가족: 여자 여자 남자 아이 |
| Lithuanian | šeima: moteris moteris berniukas |
| Malay | keluarga: perempuan, perempuan dan kanak-kanak lelaki |
| Norwegian | familie: kvinne, kvinne, gutt |
| Polish | rodzina: kobieta, kobieta i chłopiec |
| Portuguese | família: mulher, mulher e menino |
| Russian | семья: женщина женщина мальчик |
| Spanish | familia: mujer, mujer, niño |
| Spanish (Mexico) | familia: mujer, mujer, niño |
| Swedish | familj: kvinna, kvinna, pojke |
| Thai | ครอบครัว: ผู้หญิง ผู้หญิง และ เด็กชาย |
| Ukrainian | родина: жінка, жінка і хлопчик |
| Vietnamese | gia đình: phụ nữ, phụ nữ, con trai |