A nod to traditional headwear, the person with skullcap: medium skin tone shows a character rocking a rounded skullcap and a polite, composed expression. On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing bust with a gentle smile, medium-brown skin, and a bright red cap trimmed with gold detailing and a little button on top—often paired with a matching collar that hints at a classic tunic. The look reads instantly as “formal, traditional, and tidy,” like someone ready for a respectful greeting or festive photo. It’s visually crisp, symmetrical, and unmistakably the hat-forward emoji of the bunch.
Online, people drop this emoji to signal cultural pride, holiday vibes (think: Lunar New Year messages), or just “I dressed up today” energy. It’ll also pop up in food chats—dim sum plans, Chinatown strolls, or that one friend who always knows the best noodle spot. In meme-speak, it sometimes gets repurposed for cap/no-cap jokes (ironic, because it’s very much a cap), or to playfully give “NPC merchant” vibes in gaming chats. Some folks also use it as a generic “fancy hat” stand-in, though it isn’t meant to represent religious skullcaps like a kippah or kufi. Historically tied to Chinese-style skullcaps (gua pi mao), it can spark convo about representation; today it’s usually used respectfully, celebratory, and with a wink of old-school charm.
The Man with Gua Pi Mao emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3588 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: | Olive Toned Man with Gua Pi Mao Man with Chinese Cap: Medium 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F472, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128114, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B2, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 262, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC72, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc72, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56434, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F472 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F472, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128114, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F472\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb2\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC72\uD83C\uDFFD" |
