Superhero: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a vibrant mask and a matching cape, rendered here with a medium skin tone. The figure stands in a classic heroic pose, clearly ready to save the day.

Usage Context

Used to describe someone acting courageously, helping others, or simply showing off a love for comic books and action movies. It is frequently sent alongside the 🦸‍♀️ or 🦸‍♂️ variants to specify a gender, or paired with the 💥 emoji to emphasize a dramatic entrance.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0, this character was introduced alongside a wide range of diverse skin tones to better reflect the global audience's desire to represent themselves within pop culture archetypes.

Details

Glyph

🦸🏽

Unicode

U+1F9B8 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9b8_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDB8;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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