Person: beard: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A headshot featuring an individual with a full, thick beard and a medium-dark skin tone. The hair is typically shown in a neutral brown or dark shade, focusing on the prominent facial hair growth.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent someone with a beard, whether to describe physical appearance, discuss grooming habits, or signal a rugged look. It is often used in conversations about barbershops, winter fashion, or alongside emojis like 🧔 or 🧔‍♂️ to refine the character’s specific look.

History

The beard emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 to expand representation of facial hair styles. The medium-dark skin tone variant arrived shortly after as part of the system that allows users to apply Fitzpatrick scale modifiers to human-based emojis, ensuring better digital representation for people of all backgrounds.

Details

Glyph

🧔🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D4 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d4_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD4;&#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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