Old man: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
An elderly man with a receding hairline, white hair on the sides, bushy eyebrows, and a light-to-medium skin tone. He is often depicted with a friendly, gentle expression that suggests wisdom and experience.
Usage Context
Used to represent grandfathers, aging, or retirement. People often send this when talking about family members, elderly figures, or as a self-deprecating joke about feeling 'old' despite one's actual age. It frequently appears alongside emojis like 👵🏼 to represent a couple or 👴🏼 in family-themed messages.
History
The base emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0. Skin tone modifiers, including the medium-light tone, were introduced in 2015 to allow users to represent a broader range of human diversity in digital communication.
Details
Glyph
👴🏼
Unicode
U+1F474 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f474_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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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
Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.
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