No emoji is named dad. CLDR, Unicodeβs list of search words, files the word under two: π¨βπΌ Man feeding baby and π§’ Billed cap. So the dad emoji is the first, then π¨ Man and five father and child families.
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Dad emojis with a child in the picture
Man feeding baby is a man, a zero width joiner and a baby bottle, U+1F468 U+200D U+1F37C, from Emoji 13.0, and it takes five skin tones. The five families from Family: man, boy to Family: man, girl, girl are joined the same way and date from Emoji 4.0. The emoji list gives a family no skin tones.
What Unicode files under father
Father finds the man with the bottle and π Santa Claus, whose Unicode character name is FATHER CHRISTMAS. Grandfather and grandpa find π΄ Old man alone, son finds Boy and daughter finds Girl. And Unicode does have a letter named DAD: ΨΆ, ARABIC LETTER DAD.
The five families with two dads are from Emoji 2.0, so they are older than the ones with one.
Papa and pops lead to no emoji in CLDR. The words it files are dad, father, grandpa and gramps.
Some platforms now draw family emoji as plain silhouettes, Emojipedia records, after a 2023 Unicode recommendation.
Questions and answers
Is there a dad emoji?
Not by name. No emoji is called dad or father. π¨βπΌ Man feeding baby is the one emoji CLDR files under both words.
Is there a dad emoticon?
Wikipediaβs list of emoticons has none. Typed, d:{) is a dad read sideways: a cap, eyes, a moustache and a smile.
Which emoji shows a dad with a son or a daughter?
Five do. Family: man, boy and Family: man, girl show one child, and three more show two: a girl and a boy, two boys, two girls. Each is one emoji made of joined people.
Why does a father and child emoji show up as two emoji?
Each family is several emoji held together by zero width joiners. UTS #51, Unicodeβs emoji standard, says a system with no single picture for the sequence ignores the joiners and shows the separate emoji: a man, then a boy.
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Dad emoji 7
π¨βπ¦Family: man, boyU+1F468 U+200D U+1F466. A father and a son: Man, a zero width joiner and Boy. Three code points, one emoji, no skin tones. Emoji 4.0.
π¨βπ¦βπ¦Family: man, boy, boyU+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 U+200D U+1F466. A father and two sons. Five code points, two of them joiners. Emoji 4.0.
π¨βπ§Family: man, girlU+1F468 U+200D U+1F467. A father and a daughter. Three code points, one emoji. Emoji 4.0.
π¨βπ§βπ¦Family: man, girl, boyU+1F468 U+200D U+1F467 U+200D U+1F466. A father with a daughter and a son. The emoji list always puts the girl first. Emoji 4.0.
π¨βπ§βπ§Family: man, girl, girlU+1F468 U+200D U+1F467 U+200D U+1F467. A father and two daughters. Five code points, two of them joiners. Emoji 4.0.
π¨ManU+1F468. Any grown man, so anybodyβs dad. Filed under adult and man. Emoji 0.6.
π¨βπΌMan feeding babyU+1F468 U+200D U+1F37C. The one emoji CLDR files under both dad and father: Man, a zero width joiner and Baby bottle. Filed under dad, father and newborn. Emoji 13.0.
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Grandpa, sons and daughters 6
πΆBabyU+1F476. Filed under newborn and infant. Emoji 0.6.
π¦BoyU+1F466. The only emoji filed under son. Filed under son and grandson. Emoji 0.6.
π§ChildU+1F9D2. No gender stated. Filed under child and kid. Emoji 5.0.
π§GirlU+1F467. The only emoji filed under daughter. Filed under daughter and granddaughter. Emoji 0.6.
π΄Old manU+1F474. Dadβs dad. Its Unicode character name is OLDER MAN. Filed under grandfather, grandpa and gramps. Emoji 0.6.
π§βπΌPerson feeding babyU+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F37C. The only emoji CLDR files under parent. Filed under parent and newborn. Emoji 13.0.
Two dads 5
π¨βπ¨βπ¦Family: man, man, boyU+1F468 U+200D U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466. Two fathers and a son. Emoji 2.0.
π¨βπ¨βπ¦βπ¦Family: man, man, boy, boyU+1F468 U+200D U+1F468 U+200D U+1F466 U+200D U+1F466. Two fathers and two sons. Emoji 2.0.
π¨βπ¨βπ§Family: man, man, girlU+1F468 U+200D U+1F468 U+200D U+1F467. Two fathers and a daughter. Emoji 2.0.
π¨βπ¨βπ§βπ¦Family: man, man, girl, boyU+1F468 U+200D U+1F468 U+200D U+1F467 U+200D U+1F466. Two fathers, a daughter and a son. Emoji 2.0.
π¨βπ¨βπ§βπ§Family: man, man, girl, girlU+1F468 U+200D U+1F468 U+200D U+1F467 U+200D U+1F467. Two fathers and two daughters. Emoji 2.0.
Named or filed under dad and father 4
ΨΆArabic letter dadU+0636. Unicode does have a character named DAD: ARABIC LETTER DAD. A letter of the Arabic alphabet that shares only the name.
π§’Billed capU+1F9E2. The other emoji CLDR files under dad. The names list calls it a baseball cap. Filed under dad, cap and hat. Emoji 5.0.
β½Kangxi radical fatherU+2F57. KANGXI RADICAL FATHER, radical 88, the radical form of ηΆ. Besides FATHER CHRISTMAS, the only character with FATHER in its name.
π Santa ClausU+1F385. Its Unicode character name is FATHER CHRISTMAS, and it is the other emoji CLDR files under father. Filed under father and santa. Emoji 0.6.
Dad in other languages 7
γγJapanese for dad, papa, by Wiktionary
ηΈηΈMandarin for dad, bΓ ba, by Wiktionary
μλΉ Korean for dad, by Wiktionary
babaSwahili and Turkish for dad, by Wiktionary
ηΈFather, papa (ηΈ)U+7238. A Han character. Unihan defines it as father, papa.
papΓ‘Spanish for dad, by Wiktionary
VatiGerman for dad, by Wiktionary
Typed dads 7
:{)The moustache without the cap. Plain ASCII
βΉβΆβΉDAD in circled capitals. It reads the same from either end
ππͺπDad in mathematical bold script letters
8{)Moustache and glasses. Plain ASCII
c[_] #1 DADThe mug, typed. Plain ASCII
d8{)Cap, glasses and moustache: the full set. Plain ASCII
d:{)A dad emoticon, read sideways: a cap, eyes, a moustache and a smile. Plain ASCII
πΊπΆDad dancingMan dancing, then musical notes.
π¨π§°Dad fixes itMan, then toolbox.
π¨π«Dad hugMan, then people hugging.
π¨π¬π€¦Dad joke, deliveredMan, then speech balloon, then person facepalming. By Wiktionary a dad joke is a corny joke, usually on purpose, often a pun.
π¨ποΈπ€Dad napMan, then couch and lamp, then ZZZ.
π΄π¨Dadβs dadOld man, then man.
π¨πDadβs taxiMan, then taxi.
π¨π¦π£Fishing with dadMan, then boy, then fishing pole.
β€οΈπ¨Love you, dadRed heart, then man.
πΆπ¨βπΌNew dadBaby, then man feeding baby.
π₯π¨Number one dad1st place medal, then man.
π¨ππ§One more chapterMan, then open book, then child.
π¨π΅π§Tea party with dadMan, then teacup without handle, then girl.
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 is named dad or father. CLDR files dad under Man feeding baby and Billed cap alone, father under Man feeding baby and Santa Claus alone, grandfather, grandpa and gramps under Old man alone, son under Boy alone, daughter under Girl alone and parent under Person feeding baby alone; papa and pops lead to no emoji. Man feeding baby is U+1F468 U+200D U+1F37C (Man, a zero width joiner, Baby bottle), Emoji 13.0, with five skin tones; it is in the Emoji 13.0 sequence file (https://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.0/emoji-zwj-sequences.txt). The five families of one man with children are Emoji 4.0, the five with two men are Emoji 2.0, and the emoji list gives no family a skin tone. The character names FATHER CHRISTMAS (U+1F385), OLDER MAN (U+1F474), ARABIC LETTER DAD (U+0636) and KANGXI RADICAL FATHER (U+2F57) are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); FATHER stands in those two names only. The gloss baseball cap is from the Unicode names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). Unihan 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip) defines ηΆ as father; Kangxi radical 88 and ηΈ as father, papa. 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): dad (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dad) for the definition and the Spanish, German, Swahili, Turkish, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean words; dad joke (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dad_joke). 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. Wikipediaβs List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) holds no dad and no father. The lines and the combo names are this siteβs 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.