child: medium skin tone Emoji

The child: medium skin tone emoji represents a person, body part, gesture, or human activity — this category is deliberately broad and detailed so that messaging can represent people, professions, and gestures with more accuracy and inclusivity than earlier, more limited emoji sets allowed.

Category context: The People & Body category is Unicode's largest emoji group, covering body parts, hand gestures, family compositions, professions, and activities — many of which support optional skin-tone modifiers to represent human diversity.

Cataloged under Person within the People & Body category, child: medium skin tone is the 805th of 2418 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 5 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, this specific version includes a skin-tone modifier, meaning it is built by combining a base emoji with one of the five Fitzpatrick-scale skin-tone components introduced in Unicode 8.0. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F9D2 U+1F3FD.

💡 Good to know: Hand-gesture emoji can carry different, sometimes conflicting, cultural meanings in different countries — a friendly gesture in one culture can be offensive in another, so use caution in international communication.