Man with veil: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man wearing a traditional wedding veil, rendered with a medium-dark skin tone. The character features the classic bridal headpiece draped over a masculine face, breaking the traditional gender conventions typically associated with this accessory.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss modern, inclusive wedding ceremonies or to poke fun at traditional marriage norms. It is often sent in threads about grooms getting married or coupled with 🤵🏾‍♂️ to show a same-sex wedding ceremony, or paired with 👰🏾‍♀️ to contrast traditional roles.

History

The ability to customize gender and skin tone for this emoji was part of a major Unicode rollout in 2016 designed to bring more diversity to the emoji keyboard. It was developed to allow users to better represent their own identities, moving away from the restrictive gender-coded icons that defined early mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

👰🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F470 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f470_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC70;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂

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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