Man: beard: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of a man featuring a thick, full beard and a medium-light skin tone. The design captures the grooming style popularized in the 2010s, emphasizing a rugged look.

Usage Context

Used to describe men with facial hair, represent fatherhood, or signal a hipster identity. It serves as a gender-specific alternative to the generic 🧔 beard emoji and is often used alongside other person emojis like 👨 or 🧔‍♂️ to identify specific individuals in a conversation.

History

While the basic beard emoji arrived in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, the ability to apply skin tone modifiers to specific gender-variant sequences was solidified in Emoji 13.0 in 2020. This update allowed users to better reflect the diverse range of human appearances previously missing from standard messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧔🏼‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9D4 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d4_1f3fc_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD4;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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