Guard: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a traditional tall, black bearskin hat, commonly associated with the ceremonial sentries stationed at royal residences in the United Kingdom. This version displays a medium-dark skin tone.

Usage Context

Used to denote British culture, London travel, or the act of standing watch or guarding something. It is frequently sent when discussing sightseeing in the UK or as a playful way to say you are protecting or monitoring a specific situation. It is often paired with the 🇬🇧 flag or the 🏰 castle emoji.

History

The base guard emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The option to modify skin tones arrived later in 2015 as part of an industry-wide update to better represent the global diversity of people using digital messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

💂🏾

Unicode

U+1F482 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f482_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC82;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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