Man teacher: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium-dark skin tone standing in front of a green chalkboard. He is shown wearing glasses and pointing to a basic mathematical equation or diagram, clearly identifying him as someone leading a lesson.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for discussing academic life, online learning, or professional training. People use it to signal that they are teaching a class, sharing knowledge, or correcting a misunderstanding. It is frequently paired with school-related icons like 🏫 or 📚.

History

The teacher emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The ability to modify the skin tone of human emojis was later introduced in 2015, allowing for greater representation by combining the base teacher character with the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence for specific skin tone modifiers.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍🏫

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F3EB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f3eb:

HTML Entity

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

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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