This emoji shows a person wearing a traditional rounded skullcap, a nod to the Chinese gua pi mao style—here with a medium-dark skin tone for that personalized drip. It pops up in texts about Lunar New Year plans, dim sum dates, cultural pride posts, and any time you want to add a little heritage flair to the timeline. People also drop it as a cheeky “hat tip,” a respectful nod in debates, or to caption foodie runs like, “brb, soup dumplings calling.” It carries warm, celebratory energy, and when used playfully, it can read as classy, cozy, or festively extra.
On Apple’s version, expect a friendly, front-facing bust with a gentle smile, topped by a bright red, rounded skullcap with gold trim and a tiny button on top—clean lines, saturated colors, and that unmistakable iOS polish. The medium-dark skin tone makes the face feel more like you or your crew. Across social feeds, it’s a go-to for Lunar New Year posts, Chinatown stroll pics, or a nostalgic throwback to early emoji sets. Historically known on platforms as “man with Chinese cap,” it’s often used today in a more gender-neutral, culture-forward way—just remember to keep it respectful and not a stereotype delivery device.
The Man with Gua Pi Mao emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3589 of 2393 |
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| 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: | Deeper Brown Man with Gua Pi Mao Man with Chinese Cap: Medium-Dark Skin Tone |
| 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) | 1f472, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F472, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128114, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B2, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 262, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC72, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc72, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56434, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F472 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F472, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128114, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F472\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb2\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC72\uD83C\uDFFE" |
