Person getting massage: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a dark skin tone closing their eyes and leaning their head back while hands perform a massage on their temples. The image highlights a moment of physical relief and intentional rest.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for signaling self-care, a busy workday, or simply needing a break. It is often used to vent about a stressful day at the office or to talk about planning a trip to a spa. Pair it with 💆 for general use or 🧖 when discussing more immersive wellness treatments.

History

While the base character was added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the dark skin tone variant arrived in 2015 with Unicode 8.0. This update was a major milestone for digital communication, allowing for more inclusive representation of diverse skin tones across the global emoji library.

Details

Glyph

💆🏿

Unicode

U+1F486 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f486_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC86;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

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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