Man fairy: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A male-presenting figure with butterfly-like wings, depicted with a medium skin tone. The character wears a playful, woodland-inspired outfit and sports a hairstyle that suggests a whimsical, folkloric origin.
Usage Context
This emoji serves as a gender-specific variant of the classic 🧚 fairy. It is frequently used to discuss fantasy literature, gaming, or to describe a sense of lighthearted magic and mischief. It acts as a digital stand-in for characters like Oberon or Puck from Shakespearean lore.
History
The fairy character was added to the Unicode standard in 2017, but the ability to combine gender and skin tone modifiers arrived later as part of a major initiative to make character emojis more inclusive. The design pulls from centuries of European folklore, where fairies were often depicted as mischievous, nature-dwelling beings that defied traditional human categorization.
Details
Glyph
🧚🏽♂
Unicode
U+1F9DA U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9da_1f3fd_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-fantasy
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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