The medium-dark skin tone is the Unicode emoji modifier U+1F3FE (EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-5), used to alter the skin tone of compatible human-form emoji. It follows a base emoji with the Emoji_Modifier_Base property (such as person, hand, or certain body-part emoji) to create a single, modified emoji glyph. When combined correctly (e.g., thumbs up + medium-dark skin tone), most platforms display one unified emoji with a medium-dark complexion, and this sequence is considered fully qualified. If applied to an emoji that does not support skin tone modification, the modifier may display separately, or the sequence may fail and show as multiple characters.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 8.3 update.
