Man frowning: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with light skin wearing a neutral expression, his hand held up near his forehead in a gesture of visible distress or frustration. The design emphasizes the classic 'face-palm' or slumped posture used to convey being overwhelmed or annoyed.

Usage Context

Used to express feelings of disappointment, helplessness, or irritation regarding a situation. It is the go-to choice when words aren't enough to show you're fed up, often paired with 😩 or 🤦‍♂️ to double down on the sense of exasperation.

History

This variant was created by combining the base man frowning emoji with the ZWJ sequence for light skin tone, finalized as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update was a major push to make digital communication more representative of human diversity rather than relying on the default yellow skin tone.

Details

Glyph

🙍🏻‍♂

Unicode

U+1F64D U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64d_1f3fb_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4D;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

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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