Guard: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person standing at attention wearing a tall, black bearskin cap, representing a ceremonial British sentry. This specific version features a light skin tone modifier applied to the character's face.

Usage Context

Used to represent security, duty, or specific British landmarks like Buckingham Palace. It is often sent when discussing travel to London or as a humorous way to signal that someone is standing guard or being overly protective. It is frequently grouped with other regional icons like 🇬🇧 or 🏰.

History

The base guard emoji was added to Unicode in 2010. The ability to apply skin tone modifiers was introduced in 2015 as part of an effort to make the human-based emoji set more representative of a global user base, drawing from the Fitzpatrick scale for skin color categorization.

Details

Glyph

💂🏻

Unicode

U+1F482 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f482_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC82;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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