Old man: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
An elderly man with a receding hairline, white hair on the sides, bushy eyebrows, and a light-to-medium skin tone. He is often depicted with a friendly, gentle expression that suggests wisdom and experience.
Usage Context
Used to represent grandfathers, aging, or retirement. People often send this when talking about family members, elderly figures, or as a self-deprecating joke about feeling 'old' despite one's actual age. It frequently appears alongside emojis like 👵🏼 to represent a couple or 👴🏼 in family-themed messages.
History
The base emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0. Skin tone modifiers, including the medium-light tone, were introduced in 2015 to allow users to represent a broader range of human diversity in digital communication.
Details
Glyph
👴🏼
Unicode
U+1F474 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f474_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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