Man getting massage: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a light skin tone sitting with his eyes closed as hands gently rub his temples. The graphic depicts a professional spa treatment intended to relieve stress or a tension headache.

Usage Context

Use this emoji to signal that you are winding down, visiting a salon, or finally taking a break after a chaotic day. It is often sent when complaining about a stressful work week or planning a self-care day, and it pairs well with 💆 or 🧖🏻‍♂️ to emphasize a relaxing atmosphere.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017. It expanded the existing massage emoji to include gender and skin tone modifiers, following the industry-wide push for better representation across human-centric icons in mobile messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

💆🏻‍♂

Unicode

U+1F486 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f486_1f3fb_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC86;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

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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