Old man: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of an elderly man with a medium-dark skin tone, characterized by a receding hairline, a bald crown, and gray side hair. He has a gentle expression with visible wrinkles around his eyes and mouth.

Usage Context

Used to represent grandfathers, aging, or seniority. People often use this emoji to talk about family members, elderly wisdom, or to jokingly refer to feeling 'old' when paired with the 👴 or 👵 icons. It can also appear in conversations about historical figures or life experience.

History

This character was added to the Unicode set to increase representation in digital communication. The skin tone modifier was introduced in 2015 as part of the Fitzpatrick scale implementation, allowing users to select a version of the original character that better matches their own appearance.

Details

Glyph

👴🏾

Unicode

U+1F474 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f474_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC74;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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