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 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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