Man astronaut: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-dark skin wearing a white pressurized space helmet and suit. The design displays the standard professional gear worn by space agency personnel during extravehicular activities.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss space exploration, sci-fi movies, or to express that someone has 'spaced out' or is feeling detached from reality. It is often sent alongside the 🚀 rocket or 🌌 milky way to set an interstellar mood.

History

The astronaut was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the Emoji 4.0 update. It arrived during a period when tech companies were rapidly diversifying the emoji set to include more professional roles and a wider range of human skin tones to better represent the global user base.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍🚀

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F680

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f680:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83D;&#xDE80;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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