This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F466 prohibits a line break after it, if it’s followed by an emoji modifier.
The CLDR project calls this character “boy” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: bright-eyed, child, grandson, kid, son, young, younger.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 👦︎ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
On Youtube this character is sometimes wrongly displayed as U0001f466.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A boy is a young male human. The term is commonly used for a child or an adolescent. When a male human reaches adulthood, he is usually described as a man.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
128102
UTF-8
F0 9F 91 A6
UTF-16
D8 3D DC 66
UTF-32
00 01 F4 66
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%91%A6
HTML hex reference
👦
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
👦
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
94 39 D3 36
RFC 5137
\u'1F466'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001F466
C and C++
\U0001F466
C#
\U0001F466
CSS
\01F466
Excel
=UNICHAR(128102)
Go
\U0001F466
JavaScript
\uD83D\uDC66
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1f466}
JSON
\uD83D\uDC66
Java
\uD83D\uDC66
Lua
\u{1F466}
Matlab
char(128102)
Perl
"\x{1F466}"
PHP
\u{1f466}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01F466'
PowerShell
`u{1F466}
Python
\U0001F466
Ruby
\u{1f466}
Rust
\u{1f466}
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