Men wrestling: dark skin tone, medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A composite emoji displaying two men engaged in a wrestling match. One man features a dark skin tone while the other features a medium-dark skin tone, depicted mid-grapple.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss professional sports, combat competitions, or physical confrontations. It is often paired with the 🤼 category or specific sports gear like 🥊 to highlight the competitive spirit of a match or an intense physical struggle.

History

This sequence was added to the Unicode standard in 2021 as part of an effort to provide more inclusive representations of diverse skin tones in complex, multi-person emoji combinations. It builds upon the base wrestling emoji to allow for specific skin tone modifiers using the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) mechanism.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🫯‍👨🏾

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1FAEF U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1faef_200d_1f468_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDEEF;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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