Man guard: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man wearing a tall black bearskin cap and a traditional scarlet tunic, rendered with a dark skin tone. This figure represents the iconic sentries stationed outside royal residences in the United Kingdom.

Usage Context

Used to denote British identity, London tourism, or service in the military. It is frequently sent when discussing travel to the UK, royal pageantry, or stoic behavior. It is often paired with the 🇬🇧 flag or the 🏰 castle emoji to set the scene.

History

The base guard emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The modifier for skin tone was introduced in 2015 as part of an effort to provide more diverse representations for human-form emojis across global platforms.

Details

Glyph

💂🏿‍♂

Unicode

U+1F482 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f482_1f3ff_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC82;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♂

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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