The man: dark skin tone emoji is your classic front-facing dude: rich deep-brown complexion (Fitzpatrick Type-6), short black hair, a calm, friendly smile, and the trademark blue shirt on iOS. He’s the go-to stand‑in for “me,” “your boy,” or simply “a guy,” perfect for storytelling in texts like, “So this man walks into the meeting…” followed by chaos. People drop him next to pointing fingers or the eyes emoji to give big “this guy right here” energy, whether bragging, teasing, or calling someone out with love. He works in introductions, bios, group chats, and low-key flirty texts—pair with a wink or sparkles and you’ve got suave-but-subtle vibes.
On Apple devices, he’s a clean head-and-shoulders portrait with smooth gradients, rounded features, and a neutral-but-approachable expression—no beard, no hat, just tidy hair and the instantly recognizable blue tee. Online, he slips into memes as the “everyman” character, a main character energy placeholder when you need a human without extra drama. He can go sarcastic with a side-eye, dramatic with a skull, or wholesome with hearts—context does the heavy lifting. Beyond solo use, he often anchors professional or family emoji combos, reflecting representation and identity in a quick tap.
The Man emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3531 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Black Man |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F468, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128104, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 A8, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 250, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC68, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc68, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56424, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F468 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F468, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128104, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F468\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xa8\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC68\uD83C\uDFFF" |