Man mechanic: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A man with medium-dark skin wearing a blue work uniform and a yellow protective hard hat, holding a wrench. The design highlights the tools and safety gear typical of professional maintenance and repair work.
Usage Context
Used to discuss home repairs, automotive service, or skilled trade work. It is frequently sent when calling for help with a broken appliance, fixing a car, or acknowledging someone in a technical profession. It is often grouped with related job emojis like 👨🔬 or 👨💻 to show a range of specialized careers.
History
The mechanic emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the push for more inclusive gender and career representation. The skin tone options were introduced alongside the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence technology, allowing users to customize human emojis to better reflect their own appearance or specific professional roles.
Details
Glyph
👨🏾🔧
Unicode
U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F527
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f527:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Twitter/X
Category People
Subcategory person-role
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
Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.
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