The person with skullcap: dark skin tone emoji brings respectful, traditional-headwear energy, like showing up to the group chat in your holiday-fit. It shows a head-and-shoulders person wearing a round skullcap (think classic East Asian cap or kufi/taqiyah vibes), and this version uses the dark skin tone modifier for a rich brown complexion. People drop it for cultural pride, religious holidays, family gatherings, and that “I’m being respectful/fragrant with wisdom today” mood, often alongside 🙏, ☪️, 🕋, 🍵, or 🥟 depending on the context. It also gets meme-ified as “kufi on = knowledge mode,” the emoji equivalent of clearing your throat before delivering an ancient proverb or an uncle-level life lesson.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing bust with a calm, closed-mouth smile, a smooth yellow-gold skullcap with a tiny red top detail, simple flat shading, and a collared shirt peeking in—clean, no extra accessories, instantly recognizable. Historically, Unicode labeled it “Man With Chinese Cap,” but the neutral “person with skullcap” name better fits its many interpretations online. You’ll see it used earnestly for Eid greetings, temple visits, and cultural shout-outs—and ironically when someone types a sage take like “study first, vibes later.” Pairs great with captions like “respectfully,” “heritage fit,” or “wise-uncle energy activated,” and yes, it works when you’re just trying to look extra put-together in a text thread.
The Man with Gua Pi Mao emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3590 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: | Black Man with Gua Pi Mao Man with Chinese Cap: 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F472, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128114, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B2, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 262, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC72, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc72, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56434, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F472 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F472, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128114, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F472\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb2\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC72\uD83C\uDFFF" |
