Man teacher: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium-light skin tone wearing glasses and standing in front of a chalkboard or whiteboard. He is often shown pointing at the board with a wooden pointer to indicate a lesson or explanation.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to talk about schooling, professional instruction, or sharing knowledge. People frequently use it to denote that they are explaining a topic or to identify someone’s profession. It is often grouped with 👩‍🏫 or 📚 when discussing academic life or study groups.

History

The base teacher emoji was added to the Unicode standard to provide gendered representation for educational roles. The ability to modify skin tones was later introduced in 2016 as part of the Emoji 4.0 update, allowing users to better reflect the diverse reality of the global teaching workforce.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍🏫

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F3EB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1f3eb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#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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