Man astronaut: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned man wearing a white pressurized space suit and a tinted visor helmet, designed to reflect the harsh environment of outer space. The suit features typical life-support equipment details, characterizing a professional pilot or scientific researcher in orbit.

Usage Context

Used to discuss space travel, NASA missions, or general sci-fi themes. People often pair this with the 🚀 rocket or 🌌 milky way to emphasize space exploration or to express a feeling of being 'spaced out' or disconnected from reality.

History

This emoji was created by combining the man and astronaut characters with the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to provide diverse representations of space explorers. It reflects the broader initiative in the mid-2010s to ensure that vocational and identity-based emojis better represent the global population.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🚀

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F680

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1f680:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83D;&#xDE80;

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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