The person with skullcap: light skin tone emoji shows a fair‑skinned face wearing a small, round, brimless hat—aka a skullcap—often associated with traditional East Asian attire, but also interpreted by some as a kippah, kufi, or taqiyah depending on context. Online, it pops up for heritage fits, Lunar New Year vibes, period‑drama cosplay, or simply to say “nice hat” with extra flair. It also fuels punny chat culture: people drop it mid‑text when joking about “cap” vs. “no cap,” because sometimes you need a literal cap to punctuate the truth. The light skin tone modifier adds a soft, peachy complexion, making it feel more personal or on‑brand in your posts.
On Apple devices, the look is instantly recognizable: a front‑facing, gender‑neutral face with a calm, slight smile, topped by a round, yellow‑gold cap with a small red accent on top and clean, simple shading. Minimalist, tidy, and meme‑ready, it reads clearly at tiny sizes, which is perfect for captions and reaction threads. While its older label linked it specifically to a “Chinese cap,” modern naming leans neutral, and people use it broadly for cultural respect, dress‑up aesthetics, or playful hat discourse. Use it earnestly for tradition, ironically in “no cap” jokes, or dramatically when you’re about to drop wisdom that requires… a cap for emphasis.
The Man with Gua Pi Mao emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2200 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 with Gua Pi Mao Man with Chinese Cap: Light Skin Tone |
| 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) | 1f472, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F472, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128114, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B2, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 262, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC72, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc72, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56434, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F472 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F472, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128114, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F472\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb2\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC72\uD83C\uDFFB" |
