Man construction worker: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A man wearing a yellow safety hardhat, rendered with a dark skin tone. The design captures the standard look of a tradesperson ready for manual labor or site supervision.
Usage Context
Used to discuss home improvement projects, construction sites, or the act of fixing something broken. People often use it when posting photos of DIY renovations or to signal they are busy at work. It is frequently grouped with the 🛠 hammer and wrench or the 🏗 building construction emoji to highlight progress on a project.
History
The base construction worker emoji was added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The option to modify it with skin tones was introduced in 2015 via the Unicode 8.0 update, which aimed to make digital communication more inclusive by allowing users to select skin tone modifiers for human characters.
Details
Glyph
👷🏿♂
Unicode
U+1F477 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f477_1f3ff_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-role
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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