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🧒 Child

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🧒 Emoji meaning

Child, gender-neutral, childish, immature, offspring.

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🧒 Meaning

I want to have many children in the future! The gender-neutral variant of a child's face. Someone behaves childish or immature and should grow up urgently!

Examples

Is that your kid? 🧒
What a silly kid! 🧒
The kid is playing in the yard. 🧒

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Child

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Baby vs child; both represent young people, difference in age nuance may not matter in casual messaging.

Child

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Child vs boy; both youthful with short hair, used generally for kids.

Child

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Child vs girl; all these can simply stand for ‘kid’ without gender emphasis.

Variants

Skin tones

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Child” was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ bright-eyed + grandchild + kid + younger

Keywords removed

- gender-neutral - unspecified gender

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ unspecified gender

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ child

In the release of Emoji 4.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ gender-neutral + young

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