The emoji people mean by “dad emoji” are the single-parent family sequences: 👨👧 man and girl, 👨👦 man and boy, 👨👧👦, 👨👦👦 and 👨👧👧. Since Emoji 15.1 most platforms draw these as simple silhouettes so they look the same everywhere; older phones show full-colour figures. 👨 man and 🧔 person with beard stand for Dad himself, and the family emoji guide has the two-parent versions.
👔 necktie is the stereotypical present, 🍻 the celebratory beers, and the hobby set — golf, baseball, fishing, grilling 🔥🥩, fixing things 🔧 — fills out the caption. 💙 blue heart is the heart most often paired with Father’s Day posts.
Father’s Day messages
Happy Father’s Day 👨👧💙 thank you for everything
To the best dad 🎁👔 enjoy your day
Grill master 🔥🥩 happy Father’s Day
First Father’s Day 👶👨 you’re a natural
Miss you every day, Dad 🕊️💙
Father’s Day is the third Sunday of June in the US, UK, Canada and most of Europe; Australia and New Zealand celebrate on the first Sunday of September, and Spain, Portugal and Italy on 19 March. For Mother’s Day the same family emoji exist with 👩: 👩👧, 👩👦 and 👩👧👦, with 💐 bouquet as the classic gift.
IN A POSThappy father’s day to the man who taught me to fish 🎣👨👧 love you
Questions people ask
Is there a dad emoji?
No single one. 👨 man, 🧔 person with beard, or a dad-and-child family emoji such as 👨👧 or 👨👦 are what people use.
Why does the family emoji look like a grey silhouette?
Unicode simplified family emoji to silhouettes in Emoji 15.1 (2023) so they display consistently; devices updated since then show the new style.
When is Father’s Day?
Third Sunday of June in the US, UK and most countries; first Sunday of September in Australia and New Zealand; 19 March in Spain, Portugal and Italy.
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