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

People

Two men locked in a wrestling hold, rendered with a medium-light skin tone for one figure and a medium skin tone for the other. The figures are positioned in a classic grappling stance, showing the physical exertion of a match.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional wrestling, amateur sports, or friendly roughhousing. It is frequently sent during live broadcasts of major sporting events or when someone wants to express a high-stakes, competitive struggle. It pairs well with sports-related icons like 🤼 or 🥊.

History

This emoji was made possible by the 2019 Emoji 12.0 update, which expanded the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences to allow for diverse multi-person combinations. By combining existing gender and skin tone modifiers, it provided a way to represent specific pairings in physical sports that were previously limited to generic gender-neutral or single-tone designs.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍🫯‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1FAEF U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1faef_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDEEF;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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