Man firefighter: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man wearing a yellow protective helmet with a face shield, depicted with a medium-light skin tone. He represents a professional firefighter ready to handle emergency rescue or fire suppression tasks.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to signal emergency services, celebrate first responders, or show support for those working in hazardous rescue professions. It is frequently combined with the fire emoji 🔥 or the fire engine emoji 🚒 to illustrate a scene of activity or to provide an update during a crisis.

History

While the firefighter profession has existed for centuries, this specific emoji originated from the push to make Unicode gender-inclusive and representative of diverse skin tones. Added in 2016 as part of the Emoji 4.0 update, it utilizes the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence to combine the man emoji, the firefighter profession, and the specific skin tone modifier.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍🚒

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F692

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1f692:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83D;&#xDE92;

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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