Meet old man: medium-dark skin tone — the internet’s go-to grandpa vibe check. Use it to roast your friend for going to bed at 9 p.m., complaining about knees after two squats, or launching into a “back in my day” story nobody asked for. It’s also an affectionate stand-in for real grandfathers in family chats, especially when paired with hearts, tea, or a newspaper. In meme speak, it doubles as a playful “OK boomer” reaction or the face you send when a menu font drops below 12pt; sometimes it even shows up in sugar-daddy jokes or “silver fox” compliments, purely for the irony.
On Apple/iOS, he’s a friendly head-and-shoulders bust with a medium-dark brown complexion, a balding dome with short gray hair hugging the sides, calm eyes, and a small, kind smile; the shirt is a soft, neutral crew neck with rounded, gently shaded styling in a straight-on view. The instantly recognizable tells are the receding hairline and gentle expression that reads more “wise elder at the cookout” than “grumpy old man.” Online, people stack it with 🧓🏾, 🦯, 🛋️, or 📻 for retro or “grandpa energy” threads, captioned with “back in my day…” or “my knees after leg day.” It can soften a critique (“this UI feels… vintage”) or land a dad-joke with maximum seasoning; sent solo, it signals patient wisdom, weary dignity, or that you’re about to drop a story longer than a TikTok attention span.
The Older Man emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3585 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: | Deeper 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F474, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128116, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB4, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B4, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 264, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC74, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc74, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56436, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F474 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F474, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128116, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F474\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb4\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC74\uD83C\uDFFE" |
