Person getting massage: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin closing their eyes while resting their head, with two hands positioned on their temples to simulate a professional scalp or head massage.

Usage Context

Used to signal self-care, a need for relaxation, or relief from a long day. People often send this when they are heading to a spa, dealing with a headache, or simply trying to wind down after work. It pairs well with 🧖🏾 or 🧘🏾 to complete the theme of wellness and recovery.

History

Part of the effort to diversify the emoji catalog, this variant was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. It builds upon the original person getting massage emoji from 2010, which was heavily influenced by the relaxation icons found in early Japanese mobile messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

💆🏾

Unicode

U+1F486 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f486_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC86;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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