Man astronaut: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man wearing a white pressurized space suit with a reflective gold or blue visor, depicted with medium-light skin. This character represents a person trained to travel and work in outer space.

Usage Context

Used to discuss space exploration, science fiction, or the dream of becoming an astronaut. It is frequently sent alongside emojis like 🚀 for launches, 🌕 for moon landings, or 👨‍🚀 to refer to space travel in a general sense.

History

Astronaut characters were added to the emoji set to represent modern professions and scientific exploration. This specific variation using ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to allow for diverse skin tone modifiers in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍🚀

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F680

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1f680:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#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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