This emoji is the iconic British royal guard in mini form—tall bearskin hat, bright red tunic, and a face that says “unbothered” even during a meme storm. The medium-light skin tone adds a warm, beige complexion while keeping the ceremonial drip intact. People drop it when they’re “on guard” about boundaries, guarding secrets, or playing hall monitor in the group chat—aka “mods are watching” energy.
It also works for London vibes (Buckingham Palace selfies, tea time captions), and lots of playful irony: “guarding my snacks,” “guarding my heart,” or “no spoilers shall pass.” Use it to gatekeep with a wink, to flex security vibes, or to post-travel flex that you survived the Changing of the Guard crowd. Flirty twist: “I’ll stand guard outside your DMs.”
On iOS, it’s a head-and-shoulders view: glossy red coat with gold buttons, a white cross-strap, and that towering black bearskin with a snug chin strap. The expression is stoic and forward-facing—classic stiff-upper-lip theater. It instantly conjures the King’s Guard at Buckingham Palace and the “don’t make them laugh” tourist challenge you’ve seen a thousand times on TikTok.
The Guardsman emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3625 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: | Light Brown Guardsman Man Guard: Medium-Light Skin Tone guard: medium-light skin tone man guard: medium-light 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) | 1f482, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F482, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128130, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x82, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 82, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 202, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC82, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc82, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56450, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F482 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F482, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128130, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F482\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x82\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC82\uD83C\uDFFC" |
