Old man: medium skin tone Emoji

People

An elderly man with thinning white hair, a receding hairline, and deep-set wrinkles around his eyes and mouth, featuring a medium skin tone. He wears a neutral or slightly smiling expression, conveying age and experience.

Usage Context

Used to represent grandparents, elderly relatives, or to identify oneself as a 'senior' in a humorous sense. It is frequently deployed in family group chats or when referencing life wisdom, often paired with the 👵🏽 grandmother emoji or the 👴🏻 version to denote specific family members.

History

The old man emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0. The ability to modify skin tones was later introduced in 2015, allowing the character to better reflect the diverse demographics of global internet users across different cultures and age groups.

Details

Glyph

👴🏽

Unicode

U+1F474 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f474_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC74;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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