Men wrestling: dark skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji

People

Two men locked in a wrestling hold, rendered with dark and medium skin tones respectively. The figures are captured in a dynamic, full-body clinch, illustrating a competitive grappling match.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional wrestling, amateur combat sports, or friendly physical competition. It is a frequent choice for fans of televised wrestling events or those describing a literal struggle. It pairs well with sports-related icons like 🤼 or 🥊.

History

This emoji represents the evolution of the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which allows for combining individual person emojis with skin tone modifiers. It was introduced to address the need for diverse representation in sports and action-oriented imagery across mobile messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🫯‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1FAEF U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1faef_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDEEF;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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