Man: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A portrait of a man with a dark skin tone, typically shown with short, dark hair. It serves as a standard gendered representation for adult males with deeper complexions.
Usage Context
Used to identify a male person or to specify the demographic of a character in a message. It is frequently combined with other role-based emojis or family-oriented icons like 👨👩👧 to depict specific individuals or group dynamics.
History
This emoji was introduced as part of the Unicode 8.0 update in 2015. It reflects the implementation of the Fitzpatrick scale, a standard developed by dermatologists to categorize human skin types, allowing users to select a representative skin tone for human-based emojis.
Details
Glyph
👨🏿
Unicode
U+1F468 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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