Man: white hair Emoji

People

A portrait of a man featuring a full head of white or silver hair. This emoji depicts a mature adult male, often used to signify age, wisdom, or the natural greying process.

Usage Context

Used to represent grandfathers, elderly mentors, or simply a man with distinctively light hair. It serves as a gender-specific alternative to the old man emoji and is frequently used alongside the woman: white hair emoji to represent couples or generations.

History

Added in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0, this emoji was part of a major push to increase the diversity of human representations in digital communication, allowing users to specify hair color and age traits that were previously unavailable in standard character sets.

Details

Glyph

👨‍🦳

Unicode

U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f9b3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB3;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person

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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