Boy: Dark Skin Tone Emoji
A young male figure with dark brown skin, depicted with short hair and a neutral expression. It is commonly used in messages to refer to a boy or young man with that specific skin tone, often to represent a son, student, or child in conversations about family or daily life.
Boy: Dark Skin Tone is a fully-qualified emoji encoded in Unicode 8.0 , and included in Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
This emoji is part of the People & Body and is grouped with other Person emojis. Part of the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block.
Copy and paste the Boy: Dark Skin Tone emoji:
- 👦🏿
Codes & Encoding for the Boy: Dark Skin Tone Emoji
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Codepoint
U+1F466 U+1F3FF✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
👦🏿✓ Copied -
HTML (hex)
👦🏿✓ Copied -
CSS
\1F466\1F3FF✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{1F466}\u{1F3FF}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%F0%9F%91%A6%F0%9F%8F%BF✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:boy_dark_skin_tone:✓ Copied - Unicode block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
How to Type the Boy: Dark Skin Tone Emoji
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iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
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Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
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Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
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macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
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Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
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Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
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Slack Type :boy_dark_skin_tone: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :boy_dark_skin_tone: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Boy: Dark Skin Tone Emoji on Different Platforms
Skin Tone Variants of Boy: Dark Skin Tone
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How to Use the Boy: Dark Skin Tone Emoji
- That kid is so talented 👦🏿
- Helping my little brother 👦🏿
- Playing outside with 👦🏿