Brother Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-12 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). No emoji and no Unicode character is named brother (UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and CLDR files nothing under brother or sibling. It files brothers and boys under Men holding hands alone, sisters under Women holding hands alone, son under Boy alone, and twins under the four hand-holding pairs and Gemini. Men holding hands is U+1F46C, Emoji 1.0, with the character name TWO MEN HOLDING HANDS; the emoji list gives it five same-tone forms and ten mixed pairs from Emoji 12.0 and ten more mixed pairs from Emoji 12.1, each mixed pair spelled Man, tone, zero width joiner, Handshake, zero width joiner, Man, tone. The five families that end boy, boy, and the families with a girl and a boy, have no skin tones in the emoji list. Unihan 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip) defines 兄 and 哥 as elder brother and 弟 as young brother; junior; I, me. That a system without a single picture for a joined sequence shows the separate emoji is from UTS #51, version 18.0, revision 31 (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/). From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0): brother (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brother) and its translations page (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brother/translations) for the Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Hindi and Latin words and the Korean split by the speaker; pal (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pal) and friar (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/friar) for the doublets of brother and Romani phral; frater (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frater); bhai (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bhai); brother from another mother (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brother_from_another_mother). That some platforms draw family emoji as generic silhouettes, following a 2023 recommendation from Unicode, is as Emojipedia records it (https://emojipedia.org/family), restated. Wikipedia’s List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) holds no brother. The lines and the combo names are this site’s own. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the lines and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.