Guard: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person standing at attention wearing a traditional tall, black fur cap known as a bearskin. The figure has a medium skin tone and represents the iconic soldiers tasked with protecting royal residences.

Usage Context

Used to denote British heritage, travel to London, or the concept of standing watch and protecting something. People often pair this with the 🏰 castle or 🇬🇧 flag emoji to set a scene involving the British monarchy or historical landmarks.

History

The guard emoji was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The option for skin tone modifiers was introduced in 2015 as part of the push to make human-based emojis more inclusive and representative of the global population.

Details

Glyph

💂🏽

Unicode

U+1F482 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f482_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC82;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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