Man teacher: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned male instructor standing in front of a green or black chalkboard with a pointer. He wears glasses and typically sports a collared shirt or blazer, representing a professional academic figure.

Usage Context

Used to denote schooling, lecturing, or expertise in a specific subject. It is frequently sent by students discussing homework or by professionals sharing insight, often paired with the 📚 or 🎓 emojis to emphasize the educational setting.

History

The base man teacher emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of a push to represent more diverse occupations. The dark skin tone variant was implemented shortly after via the modifier system, allowing for better representation of global educators within digital messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🏫

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F3EB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1f3eb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83C;&#xDFEB;

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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