Man: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of a man with a dark skin tone, typically shown with short, dark hair. It serves as a standard gendered representation for adult males with deeper complexions.

Usage Context

Used to identify a male person or to specify the demographic of a character in a message. It is frequently combined with other role-based emojis or family-oriented icons like 👨‍👩‍👧 to depict specific individuals or group dynamics.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the Unicode 8.0 update in 2015. It reflects the implementation of the Fitzpatrick scale, a standard developed by dermatologists to categorize human skin types, allowing users to select a representative skin tone for human-based emojis.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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