Man wearing turban: light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with light skin wearing a traditional turban, typically depicted in shades of orange or yellow. The figure represents a male individual adorned with a cloth headdress, a staple of various cultures across South Asia and the Middle East.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to identify a person of specific cultural or religious background, or to denote someone who wears a turban as part of their professional or daily attire. It is often grouped with other variations like the woman wearing turban or the person wearing turban to cover a broader range of identities.
History
The turban-wearing man was added to the Unicode standard to increase demographic representation in digital communication. The light skin tone variant was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 as part of the implementation of the Fitzpatrick scale, which allows users to select skin tone modifiers to better reflect human diversity.
Details
Glyph
๐ณ๐ปโโ
Unicode
U+1F473 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f473_1f3fb_200d_2642:
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
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