Man frowning: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium-light skin tone sporting a downturned mouth, indicating feelings of sadness or displeasure. His expression is one of genuine unhappiness rather than pure anger.

Usage Context

Used to signal disappointment, frustration, or a general lack of enthusiasm about a situation. It acts as a clear indicator of a bad mood, much like the 😔 or ☹️ emojis, but with a more human-focused, masculine presentation.

History

This emoji began as a gender-neutral character but evolved through Unicode’s skin tone and gender modifier updates in 2016. It originates from the early efforts to add human diversity to messaging platforms, allowing users to move beyond the generic, yellow-faced icons that dominated early internet chat history.

Details

Glyph

🙍🏼‍♂

Unicode

U+1F64D U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64d_1f3fc_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4D;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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