Man astronaut: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium skin tone wearing a white pressurized space suit and a reflective glass helmet. This character design represents someone trained to pilot or travel inside a spacecraft for exploration or scientific research.

Usage Context

Used to discuss space travel, NASA, science fiction, or the desire to escape to the stars. It is frequently paired with the 🚀 rocket or 🌌 milky way to convey a sense of adventure, ambition, or simply wanting to be 'out of this world.'

History

The astronaut emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the push to represent diverse career paths and gender-inclusive roles. It was developed to allow users to depict specific professions that were previously limited by gender-neutral or single-gender depictions in early character sets.

Details

Glyph

👨🏽‍🚀

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F680

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fd_200d_1f680:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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