Man getting massage Emoji

People

A man with his eyes closed, sitting while receiving a head massage from two hands positioned on his temples. He appears calm and relieved as the pressure is applied to alleviate stress.

Usage Context

Used to convey feelings of relaxation, pampering, or the need to decompress after a long day. It is a frequent choice for status updates about visiting a spa, dealing with a headache, or simply trying to chill out, often shared alongside emojis like 💆 or 🧘.

History

This emoji was introduced as a gendered variation of the original massage emoji in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It reflects the expansion of people-based pictographs designed to make digital communication more representative of specific personal experiences in health and self-care settings.

Details

Glyph

💆‍♂

Unicode

U+1F486 U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f486_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC86;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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