Man Emoji

People

A head-and-shoulders portrait of an adult male with short hair and a mustache. It serves as the standard, neutral representation of a man for general communication and identity labeling.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to identify a specific person, signify fatherhood, or represent the male gender in casual conversation. It functions as a base character and can be combined with other icons, such as 👨‍👩‍👧 to depict family structures or mixed with occupation symbols to specify a role.

History

Initially included as a basic gender-neutral person icon in early sets, the specific male character was formalized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It reflects the evolution of digital characters from simple abstractions into diverse representations of human identity.

Details

Glyph

👨

Unicode

U+1F468

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;

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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