Man mechanic: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with dark skin wearing a blue cap and carrying a wrench. This image depicts a skilled tradesperson ready to perform maintenance, plumbing, or mechanical repairs.

Usage Context

Used to discuss home improvement projects, vehicle repairs, or professional trade work. It is frequently sent when asking for help with a broken appliance or acknowledging someone who works in a hands-on field, often alongside tools like 🔧 or 🛠️.

History

The base man mechanic emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The option to modify skin tone via the Fitzpatrick scale was introduced in 2015 as part of an effort to make emoji characters more representative of the global population.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🔧

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F527

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1f527:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83D;&#xDD27;

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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