Man: white hair Emoji
People
A portrait of a man featuring a full head of white or silver hair. This emoji depicts a mature adult male, often used to signify age, wisdom, or the natural greying process.
Usage Context
Used to represent grandfathers, elderly mentors, or simply a man with distinctively light hair. It serves as a gender-specific alternative to the old man emoji and is frequently used alongside the woman: white hair emoji to represent couples or generations.
History
Added in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0, this emoji was part of a major push to increase the diversity of human representations in digital communication, allowing users to specify hair color and age traits that were previously unavailable in standard character sets.
Details
Glyph
👨🦳
Unicode
U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B3
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f9b3:
HTML Entity
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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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