Man artist Emoji

People

A man wearing a black beret, holding a wooden painter’s palette with dabs of colored paint and a brush. He is depicted in a classic professional artist uniform, traditionally associated with painters and studio work.

Usage Context

Used to discuss painting, sketching, or general creative projects. It is frequently sent by people sharing their own artwork, discussing museum visits, or talking about creative hobbies. It is often grouped with 🎨 to emphasize the act of painting or 🖌️ when discussing specific tools.

History

The man artist emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the Emoji 4.0 update. It was created to provide more diverse representations of professions, allowing users to move beyond gender-neutral depictions by combining the artist icon with specific gender modifiers.

Details

Glyph

👨‍🎨

Unicode

U+1F468 U+200D U+1F3A8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f3a8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;‍&#xD83C;&#xDFA8;

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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