Man: curly hair: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of a man with medium-dark skin and distinct, tightly coiled curly hair. The design reflects a diverse range of physical traits, emphasizing hair texture as a key identifying feature.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent oneself or others in casual conversation, especially when physical appearance is relevant to the topic. It is frequently grouped with other skin-tone variants or hair types like 👨‍🦰 or 👨‍🦳 to better match a specific person's appearance.

History

The ability to modify human emojis with specific skin tones and hair textures was introduced in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0. This update was a massive step in making digital communication more inclusive by allowing users to better represent their actual identity rather than relying on the default, generic yellow figures.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍🦱

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F9B1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f9b1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB1;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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