Man technologist: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium skin tone sitting in front of a laptop computer, actively typing or coding. The character is portrayed as a professional engaged in digital work or software development.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss programming, IT support, or remote work life. It often appears in tech-related conversations or to signal that the sender is busy working on a project. Users often pair it with 💻 or 🚀 to describe the launch of a new product or an intense coding session.

History

The technologist character was added to the Unicode standard as part of the push for more diverse professional representations. It uses a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to combine the man emoji with the laptop glyph, a method developed to create more complex human figures without needing a unique code point for every possible combination.

Details

Glyph

👨🏽‍💻

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F4BB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fd_200d_1f4bb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83D;&#xDCBB;

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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