Man astronaut: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man wearing a white pressurized spacesuit with a gold-tinted helmet visor, featuring a light skin tone on the visible portion of his face. This icon represents space exploration, professional flight crew, and the concept of travel beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss space missions, sci-fi movies, or to express feelings of being spacey or distracted. It is often paired with the 🚀 rocket or the 🌌 milky way to emphasize themes of discovery and the cosmos.

History

While the base astronaut emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, the skin tone modifiers were implemented shortly after to follow the industry push for inclusive representation across all professional and character-based emoji categories.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻‍🚀

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F680

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_1f680:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#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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