U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9B1
👨🏼🦱 Man: medium-light skin tone, curly hair
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- People
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 11.0 (2018)
- Emoji version
- 11.0 (2018)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What 👨🏼🦱 is made of
This symbol is glued together from several: an invisible joiner sits between them. Software that does not know about the joiner shows the parts separately.
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👨
man
U+1F468 -
🏼
skin tone
U+1F3FC -
⛓
invisible joiner
U+200D -
🦱
curly hair
U+1F9B1
Hence the familiar surprise: you send one picture and the other side gets several in a row, and deleting removes the symbol piece by piece. That is not a fault but how the standard itself works.
Will your readers see 👨🏼🦱
The symbol belongs to the Emoji 11.0 set, and all four platforms have caught up with it. Below is the exact release for each.
- Apple since October 30, 2018 iOS 12.1
- Google since August 6, 2018 Android 9.0
- Microsoft since October 2, 2018 Windows 10 October 2018 Update
- Samsung since August 21, 2020 One UI 2.5
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 👨🏼🦱 emoji is used
The 👨🏼🦱 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how man: medium-light skin tone, curly hair is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 👨🏼🦱 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Skin tone · Gender
- 👨🦱 man: curly hair
- 👨🏻🦱 man: light skin tone, curly hair
- 👨🏼🦱 man: medium-light skin tone, curly hair
- 👨🏽🦱 man: medium skin tone, curly hair
- 👨🏾🦱 man: medium-dark skin tone, curly hair
- 👨🏿🦱 man: dark skin tone, curly hair
- 👩🦱 woman: curly hair
- 👩🏻🦱 woman: light skin tone, curly hair
- 👩🏼🦱 woman: medium-light skin tone, curly hair
- 👩🏽🦱 woman: medium skin tone, curly hair
- 👩🏾🦱 woman: medium-dark skin tone, curly hair
- 👩🏿🦱 woman: dark skin tone, curly hair
- 🧑🏻🦱 person: light skin tone, curly hair
- 🧑🏼🦱 person: medium-light skin tone, curly hair
- 🧑🏽🦱 person: medium skin tone, curly hair
- 🧑🏾🦱 person: medium-dark skin tone, curly hair
- 🧑🏿🦱 person: dark skin tone, curly hair
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
Unicode CLDR 48