The guard: medium skin tone emoji shows up in full ceremonial drip—a British Royal Guard in a scarlet tunic and that instantly iconic tall black bearskin hat, radiating “I will not crack a smile” energy. On Apple/iOS it’s a clean, front-facing bust with a warm medium-brown complexion, glossy black hat with a subtle chin strap, crisp red coat, gold buttons, and white trim that looks parade-perfect. The expression is calm and composed, like it’s actively refusing your chaos. It’s the visual shorthand for Buckingham Palace vibes and stiff-upper-lip composure.
Online, people drop this when they’re “on duty”—guarding secrets, gatekeeping the group chat, or protecting their snacks like crown jewels. It doubles as a deadpan reaction meme for drama you’re pretending not to notice, the classic “no reaction, Your Honor” posture. Sarcastically, it can mean “nothing to see here” even when you fully care, or “maximum security” when you just set a new passcode. It pops up in London travel captions, tea jokes, and playful flirts like “I’ll be your bodyguard.” Perfect for projecting unbothered authority, mod energy, or royal-level restraint, with the medium skin tone adding inclusive, real-world representation without losing the memeable uniform.
The Guardsman emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3626 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Olive Toned Guardsman Man Guard: Medium Skin Tone guard: medium skin tone man guard: medium 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F482, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128130, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x82, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 82, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 202, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC82, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc82, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56450, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F482 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F482, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128130, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F482\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x82\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC82\uD83C\uDFFD" |