Family: Woman, Woman, Girl Emoji
U+1F469 U+200D U+1F469 U+200D U+1F467:family_woman_woman_girl:About Family: Woman, Woman, Girl 👩👩👧
Family: Woman, Woman, Girl () is part of the People & Body group in Unicode. Added in Unicode E2.0. Type on GitHub and Slack to use it. On Discord it's . Click copy above to grab it, paste it anywhere.
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Often associated with child, family, girl, and 1 more keywords.
Meaning varies across cultures, see cultural notes below.
Scroll down for the full story: meaning, trends, combos, and more.
How it looks
What does it mean?
A family with two mothers and a daughter. 👩👩👧 represents same-sex female parents raising a girl, and it's one of the most significant representation emojis in the standard. It was added in Emoji 2.0 (2015) as part of the family emoji expansion that brought LGBTQ+ family structures to the keyboard.
Before 2015, no emoji represented same-sex families. The expansion that year added two-mother families, two-father families, and various child combinations alongside traditional family structures. The statement was clear: all families deserve digital representation.
In texting, 👩👩👧 is used by lesbian and queer women raising daughters, by children of same-sex parents, and in LGBTQ+ family visibility content. It's also relevant in adoption and surrogacy contexts, and in discussions about diverse family structures. Like the kiss emoji (👩❤️💋👩), this emoji has been banned or restricted in some countries where LGBTQ+ rights are criminalized.
On social media, 👩👩👧 is used by two-mother families for milestones, holidays, and everyday family content. It shows up in adoption announcements, family photo captions, and LGBTQ+ parenting communities. During Pride Month (June), usage spikes alongside 🏳️🌈 as families share their stories.
The "two moms" content space on TikTok and Instagram is thriving. Queer parenting creators document the specific joys and challenges of same-sex parenthood: navigating school forms with two "mother" fields, explaining your family to curious kids at the playground, and the particular bond of raising a daughter together. 👩👩👧 anchors this content.
Parenting blogs and apps that serve all family structures use these emojis to signal inclusivity. When an app's family emoji options include same-sex parents, it communicates "you're welcome here" to LGBTQ+ families. When they don't, the absence is loud.
The emoji also appears in adoption and surrogacy communities, where the path to parenthood often looks different from biological parenthood. Two-mother families formed through IVF, adoption, or surrogacy use 👩👩👧 to represent the family they built, however they built it.
A family with two mothers and a daughter. It represents same-sex female parents raising a girl. Used for LGBTQ+ family representation, Pride, and everyday family content.
It represents any family with two female parents and a daughter: lesbian couples, bisexual women in same-sex partnerships, and anyone whose family matches this composition. The emoji is about the family structure, not a specific sexual orientation label.
What it means from...
If someone sends 👩👩👧, they're sharing their family context: either they're a two-mom family or they grew up in one. It's disclosure and identity, not flirtation.
Between partners who are two moms with a daughter, this IS their family emoji. "Our girl 👩👩👧" is the digital representation of their daily reality.
Among friends, it references a specific family's composition. It's also used in allyship and Pride content.
In family chats, it's the identifier. The two moms and their daughter.
At work, it appears in DEI content, Pride month communications, and when someone shares their family context.
From a stranger, it's family identification or LGBTQ+ visibility content.
Flirty or friendly?
Never flirty. It's a family emoji. It represents a household, not a romantic dynamic.
- •Always family/identity context. Zero romantic implication.
They're sharing their family composition or supporting LGBTQ+ family visibility. It's identity and representation, not a casual or romantic signal.
Emoji combos
Origin story
Same-sex family emojis didn't exist before 2015. The original 👪 showed only a heterosexual nuclear family. When Emoji 2.0 expanded the family system using ZWJ sequences, it added two-mother and two-father families alongside different child combinations.
This expansion was partly driven by Apple's early inclusion of same-sex couple emojis in 2012 and a Miley Cyrus-backed petition in 2014 that gathered thousands of signatures calling for diverse family representation. The Unicode Consortium followed through in 2015.
The existence of 👩👩👧 carries political weight. In countries where same-sex families are legally recognized and protected, it's a normal family identifier. In countries where LGBTQ+ rights are criminalized, the emoji is inherently political. Indonesia demanded removal. Russia considered restrictions. The emoji is both a family portrait and a rights statement depending on geography.
Added in Emoji 2.0 (2015) as a ZWJ sequence: (Woman) + + (Woman) + + (Girl). That's 5 codepoints. Part of the family emoji expansion that brought same-sex parent families to the standard.
Design history
- 2012Apple includes same-sex couple emojis in iOS 6
- 2015👩👩👧 and other same-sex family emojis added in Emoji 2.0↗
Around the world
In over 30 countries with same-sex marriage and parenting rights, 👩👩👧 is a recognized family structure. In the Netherlands (first country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001), Belgium, Canada, Spain, South Africa, and others, this emoji represents a legally protected household.
In over 60 countries where homosexuality is criminalized, the emoji is controversial or banned. Indonesia ordered messaging apps to remove same-sex emoji. Russia has "gay propaganda" laws that could theoretically apply. The emoji's reception is a direct map of global LGBTQ+ rights.
The emoji doesn't support skin tone modifiers, which is a significant limitation for interracial same-sex families. All family members appear in default yellow. This erasure is one of the most requested Unicode improvements.
In cultures where extended family is the norm (South Asia, Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa), the nuclear family framing (two parents, one child) doesn't capture how many LGBTQ+ families actually live, often with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and chosen family as integral members.
In countries with same-sex marriage (30+), it's a normal family emoji. In countries where LGBTQ+ rights are criminalized (60+), it's political. Indonesia demanded messaging apps remove it.
Often confused with
Do's and don'ts
- ✓Use when it represents your actual family
- ✓Include in LGBTQ+ family visibility content
- ✓Celebrate same-sex families with respect
- ✓Support during Pride and year-round
- ✗Fetishize same-sex families
- ✗Use performatively only during Pride Month
- ✗Question someone's family structure
- ✗Send to someone in a country where LGBTQ+ expression is criminalized without considering safety
With the same warmth you'd show any family. 'Beautiful family' or engaging with whatever they're sharing about their daughter or their life. Nobody needs their family structure questioned or explained.
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Fun facts
- •Same-sex family emojis didn't exist before Emoji 2.0 (2015). The original 👪 only represented a heterosexual nuclear family. Every other household configuration was digitally invisible.
- •Family emojis don't support skin tone modifiers, which is a limitation for interracial same-sex families. All family members appear in default yellow regardless of the user's race.
- •The same-sex family emojis have been banned in some countries including Indonesia, making them simultaneously a family identifier and a political statement depending on where you use them.
- •The Netherlands legalized same-sex marriage in 2001, 14 years before same-sex family emojis appeared. Digital representation lagged legal recognition by over a decade.
- •As of 2026, over 30 countries legally recognize same-sex marriage. The map of where 👩👩👧 is a normal family emoji versus a controversial one closely tracks the map of marriage equality legislation.
Common misinterpretations
- •Using 👩👩👧 casually between two female friends and a younger person isn't what the emoji was designed for. It specifically represents a same-sex parenting unit, not a girls' hangout.
- •The emoji's political dimension means it carries weight that purely demographic family emojis (like 👨👩👦) don't. In some countries, using it is an act of visibility; in others, it could put someone at risk.
- •Performative allyship (using 👩👩👧 during Pride Month but ignoring LGBTQ+ issues the other 11 months) is noticed by the community. Consistent visibility matters more than seasonal gestures.
In pop culture
- •The 2014 petition backed by Miley Cyrus for diverse emoji representation, including LGBTQ+ families, helped push Unicode to expand the family system in 2015. The campaign gathered thousands of signatures and media coverage.
- •The World Economic Forum asked 'Are emoji the new human rights frontier?' in 2016, using same-sex family emojis as a case study in how digital representation functions as a civil rights issue.
- •Indonesia's ban on same-sex emojis in 2016 was covered by international media as a digital censorship story, drawing global attention to the intersection of emoji, LGBTQ+ rights, and state power.
Trivia
For developers
- •ZWJ sequence: 5 codepoints ().
- •Does NOT support skin tone modifiers.
- •Fallback: 👩👩👧 (three separate person emojis).
- •Shortcodes: (GitHub).
- •Part of the same-sex family emoji matrix alongside 👩👩👦, 👩👩👧👦, 👩👩👦👦, 👩👩👧👧.
Emoji 2.0 (2015), alongside other same-sex family emojis and diverse family compositions.
No. Family emojis don't support skin tone modifiers. All family members appear in default yellow.
Family emojis don't support skin tone modifiers due to technical complexity (each member would need its own modifier, exponentially increasing the combinations). All members appear in default yellow. It's a known limitation the Unicode Consortium is aware of.
See the full Emoji Developer Tools guide for regex patterns, encoding helpers, and more.
What does 👩👩👧 represent to you?
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- Family: Woman, Woman, Girl (emojipedia.org)
- Gay family emojis (HuffPost) (huffpost.com)
- 15 Banned Emojis (historyoasis.com)
- Top 10 Emoji Controversies (listverse.com)
- Emoji as Human Rights Frontier (weforum.org)
- Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands (wikipedia.org)
- Family emoji meaning (Dictionary.com) (dictionary.com)
- LGBT-inclusive emojis (PinkNews) (thepinknews.com)
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