Old man Emoji

People

A side-profile depiction of an elderly man with thinning grey or white hair, bushy eyebrows, and a mustache. He appears with a neutral, calm expression typical of a senior citizen.

Usage Context

Used to denote topics involving aging, retirement, or genealogy. It is frequently sent when talking about grandfathers or senior family members. Users often combine this with 👵 to represent an older couple or 👶 to highlight the span of generations within a family tree.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the expansion of human figures. Its design is based on standard pictographic sets developed for Japanese mobile carriers in the late 90s, intended to make text-based messaging feel more expressive and personal.

Details

Glyph

👴

Unicode

U+1F474

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f474:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC74;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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