Man student: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-dark skin wearing a dark-colored mortarboard cap, which is the standard headwear for graduation ceremonies. The design captures the professional look of someone who has completed their academic requirements.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for celebrating academic achievements like finishing a degree, passing an exam, or starting a new school year. People often use it alongside 🎓 or 🏫 to announce a graduation date or share a milestone with friends and family.

History

While the basic student emoji has been around for a long time, the ability to modify skin tones was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update was a major shift for the platform, allowing users to select representational versions of human emojis to better reflect diverse global populations.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍🎓

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F393

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f393:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83C;&#xDF93;

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository