Old man: dark skin tone Emoji

People

An elderly man with dark skin, a prominent bald head, white eyebrows, and a bushy mustache. The design emphasizes age through visible wrinkles around the eyes and cheeks.

Usage Context

Used to denote grandparents, elderly relatives, or to refer to someone as a 'gramps' or 'old-timer.' It frequently pops up in discussions about aging, retirement, or historical perspectives, often paired with the 👴 base emoji or the 👵🏿 counterpart to represent a couple.

History

Human emojis were originally limited to a single default tone until Unicode 8.0 in 2015, which introduced the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers. This allowed users to assign diverse skin tones to character emojis, moving beyond the long-standing convention of generic yellow icons in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👴🏿

Unicode

U+1F474 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f474_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC74;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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