Man construction worker: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man wearing a yellow hardhat, typically depicted with a medium-light skin tone. He is dressed in a professional vest and gear associated with manual labor and industrial job sites.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to signal that someone is busy working on a project, physically repairing something, or currently on a job site. People often send it when they are dealing with home renovations or tech troubleshooting, sometimes pairing it with 🚧 or 🛠️ to emphasize that work is in progress.

History

The construction worker was originally part of the early emoji sets, but the ability to choose skin tones was added in 2015 with Unicode 8.0. The man-specific variant was introduced later to allow for more granular representation of gendered roles in the workplace.

Details

Glyph

👷🏼‍♂

Unicode

U+1F477 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f477_1f3fc_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC77;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♂

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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