Meet the default-dude avatar of the emoji world: the man: light skin tone. People drop this to mean “a guy,” to point at themselves, or to shorthand a boyfriend/dad/bro text cameo. It’s also meme fuel for “men will literally…” jokes, or a deadpan way to quote “the man said” with a little extra eye-roll energy. Thanks to skin tone modifiers, this version signals a light complexion without changing the chill, generic-guy vibe.
On Apple/iOS, he’s a front-facing bust with a soft peach tone, tidy short brown hair parted to the side, and a mild closed-mouth smile that screams “LinkedIn headshot taken at 9:13 a.m.” The navy blue crewneck and clean gradients make him look neat, polite, and completely unbothered—no hats, no props, just pure dude essence. The simple shoulders-up crop and crisp lines are instantly recognizable in group chats and comment threads.
Online, you’ll see him used earnestly (“it me”), playfully (to tag a male perspective), or ironically (to call out bro-science and mansplaining). Stack him with arrows, quotes, or job emojis to imply roles—his base form even shows up behind ZWJ profession combos like the chef or doctor variants. Paired with hearts he reads boyfriend-core; paired with a sighing text he’s “your Uber driver waiting outside.” Versatile, neutral, and a little bit corporate, he’s the emoji equivalent of khakis and a decent haircut.
The Man emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2197 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | White Man |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👨🏻 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👨🏻 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👨 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👨 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f468, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F468, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128104, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 A8, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 250, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC68, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc68, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56424, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F468 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F468, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128104, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F468\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xa8\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC68\uD83C\uDFFB" |
