Old man: dark skin tone Emoji

People

An elderly man with dark skin, a prominent bald head, white eyebrows, and a bushy mustache. The design emphasizes age through visible wrinkles around the eyes and cheeks.

Usage Context

Used to denote grandparents, elderly relatives, or to refer to someone as a 'gramps' or 'old-timer.' It frequently pops up in discussions about aging, retirement, or historical perspectives, often paired with the 👴 base emoji or the 👵🏿 counterpart to represent a couple.

History

Human emojis were originally limited to a single default tone until Unicode 8.0 in 2015, which introduced the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers. This allowed users to assign diverse skin tones to character emojis, moving beyond the long-standing convention of generic yellow icons in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👴🏿

Unicode

U+1F474 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f474_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC74;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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