Man: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of a man featuring a medium skin tone, typically depicted with short hair and neutral facial features. This icon serves as a standard gender-specific character representation for a male adult.

Usage Context

Used to denote a man in casual conversation or to identify individuals within a group setting. It is frequently combined with modifiers or other people emojis like 👨🏾 or 👩🏽 to represent families, colleagues, or specific groups of friends.

History

The ability to choose skin tones for human emojis was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update utilized the Fitzpatrick scale, a dermatological standard for skin color, allowing users to move beyond the default yellow shade to better reflect human diversity in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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