Man pilot: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium-dark skin tone wearing a dark navy or black peaked flight cap with a gold emblem. This icon represents a professional airplane pilot, typically shown with the classic headwear used in commercial aviation.

Usage Context

Used to discuss travel, flight status, aviation careers, or air transportation. It is frequently sent by passengers currently on a flight or by those aspiring to work in the airline industry. It is often paired with ✈️ or 🛫 to clarify that the topic is specifically about air travel.

History

While the base pilot emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, the ability to modify the character with various skin tones was added shortly after to better reflect the diverse workforce in global aviation. The design reflects the uniform standards maintained by major international airlines since the mid-20th century.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍✈

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2708

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_2708:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍✈

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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