Man mechanic: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man wearing a dark-colored cap and a work shirt, holding a wrench in his hand. This version features a light skin tone modifier applied to his face and arms.

Usage Context

Used to represent blue-collar professions, DIY home repairs, or automotive maintenance. People often send it when discussing a broken appliance, a car breakdown, or to signal they are busy working on a project. It is frequently grouped with related trade emojis like 👨‍🔬 or 👨‍💻 to identify different types of skilled work.

History

The base man mechanic emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. The ability to modify skin tones was added shortly after to better reflect the diverse workforce across global industries, following the expansion of the Emoji Diversity initiative in 2015.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻‍🔧

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F527

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_1f527:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83D;&#xDD27;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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