Family: Woman, Girl, Boy Emoji
U+1F469 U+200D U+1F467 U+200D U+1F466:family_woman_girl_boy:About Family: Woman, Girl, Boy 👩👧👦
Family: Woman, Girl, Boy () is part of the People & Body group in Unicode. Added in Unicode E4.0. Type on GitHub and Slack to use it. Click copy above to grab it, paste it anywhere.
Works in iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Instagram, Twitter, Gmail, and every app that supports Unicode.
Often associated with boy, child, family, and 2 more keywords.
Scroll down for the full story: meaning, trends, combos, and more.
How it looks
What does it mean?
A woman with a girl and a boy. 👩👧👦 represents a mother with two children of different genders, one of the most common family configurations worldwide. It's the go-to emoji for single moms, but also works for any "mom and kids" moment where the father simply isn't in the frame.
Added to Emoji 4.0 in 2016, it was part of the batch that introduced single-parent family emojis. ESME (Empowering Solo Moms Everywhere) called the release a sign of how mainstream solo parenthood had become. With nearly 11 million single-mother households in the US (3x the number in 1960), the emoji filled a real representational gap.
On Apple iOS 17.4+, all family emojis render as genderless silhouettes. On Android and Samsung, the original yellow-figure design persists.
👩👧👦 peaks on Mother's Day and during back-to-school season. Single moms use it as a bio marker and in captions about daily parenting life. It's the visual shorthand for "me and my two" in Instagram stories, school pickup selfies, and bedtime routine TikToks.
The emoji also shows up in advocacy contexts: discussions about single-parent poverty (31.3% poverty rate for single-mother families vs 5.5% for married couples), childcare access, and parental leave policies. It carries both pride and the weight of doing it alone.
👩👧👦 represents a family with a mother, a daughter, and a son. It's used for single-mom families, mother-and-kids moments, Mother's Day posts, and as a bio identifier. Added to Emoji 4.0 in 2016.
Not necessarily. It shows a mother with two children, but the father could simply be absent from the picture. Some single moms use it as an identity marker, but don't assume someone's relationship status from the emoji.
What it means from...
Not used romantically. If someone has 👩👧👦 in their dating profile, they're telling you they're a mom with two kids. It's disclosure, not a signal.
A partner might use it to reference her family unit: "picking up the kids 👩👧👦" is a schedule update. It can also appear in blended-family contexts where she's describing her side of the family.
Friends use it to reference a mom they know: "she's doing it all 👩👧👦💪" is a common expression of admiration for a solo parent friend.
Within the family, this is "us" for a mom and her two kids. Shows up in family group chats, holiday posts, and school forms where she represents the household.
At work, it appears in parental leave discussions and schedule-flexibility requests. "Leaving early for pickup 👩👧👦" is a common Slack message.
In a bio, it signals "mom of two (girl and boy)." On parenting forums, it's a standard identity marker.
Emoji combos
Origin story
Single-parent family emojis arrived in Emoji 4.0 (2016), six years after the original 👪 Family emoji (Unicode 6.0, 2010) showed only a two-parent household. The addition recognized that millions of families don't fit the man-woman-child template.
The numbers behind the representation: nearly 11 million single-mother households in the US, roughly 80% of all single-parent homes. Nearly 40% of US children are born to unmarried mothers. These aren't edge cases. They're the reality for a huge portion of families.
When Apple released the single-parent emojis, solo moms celebrated on Twitter. For the first time, they could represent their family without a missing puzzle piece.
In 2024, Apple's iOS 17.4 converted all family emojis to silhouettes, following a Unicode recommendation to avoid the 52,000+ emoji problem of skin tone combinations.
Design history
Mother-child family emojis (relative usage)
Often confused with
Parent gender. 👩👧👦 shows a woman (mother) with a girl and boy. 👨👧👦 shows a man (father) with the same children. On Apple iOS 17.4+, they render identically.
Do's and don'ts
- ✓Use to represent your own family or celebrate a mom you know
- ✓Include in Mother's Day messages
- ✓Use as a bio marker to represent your family structure
- ✗Don't assume 👩👧👦 means the mom is single — the other parent may just not be in the picture
- ✗Don't use it to comment on someone else's family structure uninvited
- ✗Avoid in contexts that could read as pitying single mothers — the emoji represents pride, not hardship
Caption ideas
Aesthetic sets
Fun facts
- •When Apple released single-parent emojis in 2016, solo moms celebrated on social media. ESME called it a sign of how mainstream solo parenthood had become.
- •Nearly 40% of US children are born to unmarried mothers, a dramatic shift from the 1960s when the figure was under 10%.
- •The ZWJ sequence for 👩👧👦 combines five codepoints: Woman + ZWJ + Girl + ZWJ + Boy. On platforms that don't support the sequence, it falls back to showing 👩👧👦 separately.
Trivia
For developers
- •👩👧👦 is a ZWJ sequence: (Woman) + + (Girl) + + (Boy). Five codepoints.
- •Shortcode: on Slack/GitHub.
- •Family emojis do NOT support skin tone modifiers. Fallback on unsupported platforms: 👩👧👦 shown separately.
Apple's iOS 17.4 (2024) replaced all gendered family emojis with genderless silhouettes. On Android and Samsung, the original mom-girl-boy design still shows.
Emoji 4.0 (2016) as a ZWJ sequence combining Woman + Girl + Boy. It was part of the first batch of single-parent family emojis.
See the full Emoji Developer Tools guide for regex patterns, encoding helpers, and more.
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