Man with veil Emoji

People

A man wearing a traditional wedding veil. The character features a short-haired male figure draped in a white, translucent headpiece, typically associated with bridal attire.

Usage Context

Used to represent a groom, a man participating in a wedding, or someone who is playfully or literally dressing up for a nuptial celebration. It is often used alongside 💍 or 🤵 to discuss marriage or formal wedding ceremonies.

History

This emoji was added in 2020 as part of Unicode 13.0 to expand gender-neutral and inclusive representation. It follows the path laid by earlier emojis like 👰 by allowing users to select specific gender modifiers for traditional roles that were previously locked to one specific depiction.

Details

Glyph

👰‍♂

Unicode

U+1F470 U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f470_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC70;‍♂

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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