Man wearing turban Emoji

People

A man wearing a wrapped turban on his head. The style reflects a traditional head covering worn across various cultures in South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Usage Context

Used to represent someone from these regions, a religious figure, or to denote someone dressed in traditional attire. It is frequently used alongside other demographic-specific emojis like man with gua pi mao or woman wearing headscarf to represent cultural identity or diversity in digital conversations.

History

While the base turban emoji was introduced in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, the gendered variant was added in 2017 as part of Emoji 4.0. This update was part of a larger initiative to provide more diverse human representation within the emoji standard to better reflect the global user base.

Details

Glyph
๐Ÿ‘ณโ€โ™‚
Unicode
U+1F473 U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f473_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
��‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X
Category People
Subcategory person-role
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
manturbanpeoplepersonroleculturetraditionheadweardiversity

Twemoji Attribution

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