Man: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of an adult male with a medium-dark skin tone, typically displayed with a neutral expression and short, dark hair. It functions as a standard human figure representing a man within the diverse Fitzpatrick scale system.

Usage Context

Used to denote a man in casual conversation or to identify individuals in professional settings. This emoji is frequently grouped with variants like 👨🏻 or 👨🏿 to customize gender and skin tone representation in messages, social media posts, and digital profiles.

History

While the basic man emoji dates back to early Unicode releases, the modifier system allowing for skin tone variations was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update was a major milestone in digital communication, aimed at providing better representation across global user bases.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person

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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