Old man: light skin tone Emoji

People

An elderly man with light skin, thinning or bald hair, bushy eyebrows, and wrinkles around his eyes. He is often portrayed with a gentle, toothless smile that conveys a sense of age and experience.

Usage Context

Frequently used to represent a grandfather, an older relative, or to joke about feeling old. It is often paired with the 👴 base emoji or contrasting younger figures like 👦 to represent the passage of time or generational differences in conversation.

History

The base old man emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The option to apply skin tone modifiers like the light skin tone was introduced in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update, aiming to provide more diverse representations of human characters across messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

👴🏻

Unicode

U+1F474 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f474_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC74;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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