U+1F46A ยท emoji since 2010
The family emoji gathers everyone into one frame. Holidays, reunions, and proud parent moments all come home to it.
It celebrates the people you're stuck with and love anyway. Chosen family counts too.
In texting, ๐ช does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and ๐ช is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Family emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the family emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The ๐ช leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.