This emoji salutes the iconic British palace guard—red tunic, towering black bearskin hat, and a stare so unbothered it could win a staring contest with your notifications. The medium-dark skin tone variant adds representation while keeping the look unmistakable. On Apple/iOS, the guard faces forward with a glossy black bearskin, bright scarlet jacket, a crisp white strap across the chest, dark trousers, and that classic straight-ahead, no-smile composure—posture locked at attention like a human do-not-disturb sign. Think Buckingham Palace vibes, Changing of the Guard spectacle, and tourists trying (and failing) to make them crack a grin.
Online, people use it for “on guard” energy—protecting the group chat, gatekeeping the tea, or guarding personal boundaries like a pro. It’s perfect for stone-faced sarcasm (“unfazed by your drama”), playful security checks (“ID please—vibes only”), or even flirty banter (“I volunteer as your bodyguard”). It pops up in London travel captions, in no-reaction meme threads, and anytime you want to send NPC-level stoicism. Basically: disciplined, dignified, and delightfully memeable.
The Guardsman emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3627 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: | Deeper Brown Guardsman Man Guard: Medium-Dark Skin Tone guard: medium-dark skin tone man guard: medium-dark 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F482, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128130, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x82, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 82, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 202, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC82, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc82, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56450, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F482 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F482, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128130, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F482\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x82\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC82\uD83C\uDFFE" |