How it looks elsewhere
๐ช Your device
Twemoji 
Noto ๐ช Fluent
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Family Means
People reach for ๐ช when they mean child, family. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Family is one of the people & body emoji, alongside ๐ฃ๏ธ ๐ค ๐ฅ ๐ซ ๐งโ๐งโ๐ง and 5 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Family was added in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, OpenMoji, but not yet in Microsoft's Fluent. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ช is the single code point U+1F46A, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :family:.
How To Use ๐ช
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ช๐ฃ๏ธ๐ค and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :family: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.