Man with veil: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man wearing a traditional white bridal veil. This emoji features the man character modified with a light skin tone, showcasing a break from traditional gender-specific wedding imagery.

Usage Context

Used to represent weddings, marriage, or roleplay where a man adopts the visual of a bride. It is frequently sent during wedding announcements, bachelor parties, or in discussions about evolving gender roles in nuptial traditions. It often appears alongside 🤵🏻‍♂️, 💍, or 🥂.

History

This variation was added to the Unicode standard in 2020 as part of the push for greater gender-inclusive representation. By providing men with the same character modifiers previously reserved for women, it corrected a long-standing oversight in early emoji sets that strictly linked the veil to the 👰 emoji.

Details

Glyph

👰🏻‍♂

Unicode

U+1F470 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f470_1f3fb_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC70;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♂

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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