Man scientist: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with dark skin wearing a white laboratory coat and protective goggles, holding a blue or green flask. This character represents someone working in a scientific field, such as biology, chemistry, or physics.

Usage Context

Used to denote someone with a professional background in STEM, or to add visual flair to posts about research, academic breakthroughs, or experiments. It is often combined with other career-related characters like 👩🏿‍🔬 or 🧪 to discuss laboratory work or technical projects.

History

The base scientist emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the drive to diversify professional roles represented in emoji sets. The dark skin tone variant became possible following the implementation of Fitzpatrick scale modifiers, allowing users to better represent their identity within digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🔬

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F52C

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1f52c:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83D;&#xDD2C;

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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