Person getting massage: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium-light skin tone resting their head while hands massage their temples. The posture shows the subject leaning back to alleviate tension or stress.

Usage Context

Used to signal that someone is taking a break, visiting a spa, or treating themselves to some self-care. It is frequently sent when someone is feeling frazzled and needs to vent, often accompanied by 💆 or 🧖🏼 to emphasize the relaxation process.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as part of a collection of action-oriented person icons. The skin tone variation was introduced in 2015 as part of the Unicode Emoji 1.0 update, which expanded the representation of diverse physical appearances across the messaging platform landscape.

Details

Glyph

💆🏼

Unicode

U+1F486 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f486_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC86;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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

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