Man feeding baby: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with dark skin holding a nursing bottle while cradling an infant. The figure is depicted in a nurturing posture, showing the caregiving process between a father or guardian and a newborn.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss parenting, childcare duties, or the daily reality of feeding a baby. It is frequently sent by new parents sharing milestones or discussing the demands of nighttime feedings. It is often grouped with emojis like 🍼 or 👨‍👩‍👧 to represent family dynamics.

History

This emoji was added in 2020 as part of Unicode 13.0. Its inclusion addressed a long-standing request from users for more inclusive gender and skin tone variations regarding childcare, moving beyond the traditional female-coded nursing imagery previously dominant in standard character sets.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🍼

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F37C

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1f37c:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83C;&#xDF7C;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

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

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