U+1F481 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
ππ½ββοΈ Man tipping hand: medium skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- People Gestures
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 9.0 (2016)
- Emoji version
- 4.0 (2016)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What ππ½ββοΈ 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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π
person tipping hand
U+1F481 -
π½
skin tone
U+1F3FD -
β
invisible joiner
U+200D -
β
male sign
U+2642 -
οΈ
Β«draw as a pictureΒ» marker
U+FE0F
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 ππ½ββοΈ
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the ππ½ββοΈ emoji is used
The ππ½ββοΈ 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 β below you can see how man tipping hand: medium skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- ππ½ββοΈ Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
πΎ SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
πΎ SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
πΎ 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 Β· Gender
- π person tipping hand
- ππ» person tipping hand: light skin tone
- ππΌ person tipping hand: medium-light skin tone
- ππ½ person tipping hand: medium skin tone
- ππΎ person tipping hand: medium-dark skin tone
- ππΏ person tipping hand: dark skin tone
- πββοΈ man tipping hand
- ππ»ββοΈ man tipping hand: light skin tone
- ππΌββοΈ man tipping hand: medium-light skin tone
- ππ½ββοΈ man tipping hand: medium skin tone
- ππΎββοΈ man tipping hand: medium-dark skin tone
- ππΏββοΈ man tipping hand: dark skin tone
- πββοΈ woman tipping hand
- ππ»ββοΈ woman tipping hand: light skin tone
- ππΌββοΈ woman tipping hand: medium-light skin tone
- ππ½ββοΈ woman tipping hand: medium skin tone
- ππΎββοΈ woman tipping hand: medium-dark skin tone
- ππΏββοΈ woman tipping hand: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
Unicode CLDR 48