Man: red hair Emoji

People

A portrait of a man with short, distinct ginger or orange-red hair. The design focuses on highlighting the hair color as a primary feature, distinguishing it from standard brown or black-haired male avatars.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to identify individuals with red hair or to discuss traits associated with gingers. It serves as a more specific alternative to the standard 👨 and is frequently used alongside other hair-color variations like 👨‍🦱 or 👨‍🦳 to better represent the diversity of human appearances in messaging.

History

The red-haired variants were added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. This update was a response to long-standing user feedback requesting more inclusive representation of natural hair colors beyond the default black and brown presets previously available in the emoji keyboard.

Details

Glyph

👨‍🦰

Unicode

U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B0

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f9b0:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB0;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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