Stiff upper lip mode: activated. The man guard: medium-light skin tone emoji channels the iconic British royal guard—think towering fuzzy hat, crisp red tunic, and zero-nonsense posture. People drop this when they’re “on duty” in chats: guarding their peace, gatekeeping spoilers, or playing security for the group chat like, “No entry without vibes.” It also lands as a joke when you’re pretending to be stone-faced but absolutely losing it inside.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a front-facing bust with a jet-black bearskin hat, a neat red uniform with gold-button vibes, and a slim black chin strap. The face is calm and slightly smiley (Apple gonna Apple), with the medium-light skin tone giving a warm beige complexion. No weapon shown—just that unmistakable guard aesthetic, clean vector shading, and parade-ready posture. The “man” variant reads as male-presenting, but the look is classic royal sentry either way.
Culturally, it nods to the Queen’s/King’s Guard outside Buckingham Palace and those tourist memes where nobody can make them crack a smile. Online, it flexes as: “I’m the bouncer of this thread,” “mods are watching,” or “guarding this secret like Fort Knox.” Used sarcastically when you’re actually not guarding anything, flirtatiously as DIY bodyguard energy, or dramatically to signal loyalty and stand-by mode. Pair it with 🇬🇧, 🏰, or 🫖 for peak London aesthetic.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3290 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 💂🏼♂️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 5 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 💂🏼♂️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 💂 🏼 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 💂 🏼 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f482, 1f3fc, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F482, U+1F3FC, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128130, 127996, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x82, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 82, F0 9F 8F BC, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 202, 360 237 217 274, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC82, 0xD83C 0xDFFC, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc82, d83cdffc, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56450, 55356 57340, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F482 0x0001F3FC 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F482, 01F3FC, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128130, 127996, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F482\U0001F3FC\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x82\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC82\uD83C\uDFFC\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
