The old man: medium-light skin tone emoji brings instant grandpa energy—equal parts wisdom, coupons, and “back in my day” storytelling. People drop it when they’re roasting someone for boomer takes, playfully admitting they feel ancient after one squat, or announcing bedtime at 9 p.m. sharp. It can be wholesome too: used for Father’s Day posts, celebrating a beloved grandad, or channeling coastal-grandpa aesthetic on TikTok. In sarcastic mode, it pairs perfectly with “OK boomer,” tech confusion jokes, or that moment you realize 2016 is now ‘throwback.’
On Apple devices, it’s a straight-on headshot: a balding top with neat gray hair on the sides, dark eyes, thin brows, and a small, gentle smile—no hat, no glasses, just kindly elder vibes. The medium-light skin tone shows as a warm beige, with Apple’s soft gradients and that clean iOS gloss. Visually it reads instantly as “elderly man,” but online it moonlights as the wise mentor, the grumpy old-man bit, or the ironic silver-fox wink. Think: Gandalf on his day off, your grandad telling war stories about dial-up, or a veteran gamer announcing, “I was there for 1.6.”
The Older Man emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2516 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Light Brown Older Man |
| 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) | 1f474, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F474, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128116, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB4, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B4, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 264, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC74, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc74, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56436, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F474 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F474, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128116, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F474\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb4\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC74\uD83C\uDFFC" |
