The guard: light skin tone emoji depicts the iconic British royal guard in a towering bearskin hat, here with a light complexion. People drop it when they’re in security mode—guarding snacks, guarding secrets, or gatekeeping their favorite niche band like a palace treasure. It also doubles as “mods are watching” or “bouncer of the group chat” energy, a polite but firm do-not-pass vibe. On the meme side, it’s shorthand for that stoic, unblinking face that won’t react, echoing viral clips of Buckingham Palace guards staying stone-cold while tourists clown. You’ll also see it in dramatic texts about boundaries—guarding my heart, protector arc unlocked—or playfully flirty as in “I’ll be your bodyguard.”
Apple/iOS shows a shoulder-up portrait facing forward: bright scarlet tunic, a glossy gold chinstrap, and a massive black bearskin hat that eats half the canvas, with a neutral, straight-ahead stare and smooth Apple gradients. The light skin tone makes the face and ears pale peach, contrasting the dark hat and crisp uniform details. Cultural nod: the look channels the King’s Guard outside Buckingham Palace, where the bearskin tradition harks back to ceremonial 19th‑century uniforms—so the emoji delivers instant London vibes. Use it straight for protection or rules, or ironically to hype up your inner gatekeeper, your spoiler shield, or the sober friend standing between you and questionable life choices.
The Guardsman emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3624 of 2393 |
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| 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: | White Guardsman Man Guard: Light Skin Tone guard: light skin tone man guard: light 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) | 1f482, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F482, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128130, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x82, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 82, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 202, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC82, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc82, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56450, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F482 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F482, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128130, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F482\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x82\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC82\uD83C\uDFFB" |
