Man: light skin tone Emoji

People

A standard portrait of a man with light skin, typically shown with neutral features and short hair. It is a base human emoji modified by a specific skin tone indicator to reflect diverse appearances.

Usage Context

Used to denote a man in messages, social media posts, or when identifying someone in a conversation. It frequently appears alongside other gendered emojis like 👩🏻 or 🧑🏻 to represent family structures, groups of friends, or professional teams.

History

Skin tone modifiers were added to the Unicode standard in 2015 as part of an effort to make digital communication more representative. This emoji uses the Fitzpatrick scale, a dermatological standard, to apply the lightest skin tone variant to the base man icon.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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