U+1F481 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ Man tipping hand: dark skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- People Gestures
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 9.0 (2016)
- Emoji version
- 4.0 (2016)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ 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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๐
person tipping hand
U+1F481 -
๐ฟ
skin tone
U+1F3FF -
โ
invisible joiner
U+200D -
โ
male sign
U+2642 -
๏ธ
ยซdraw as a pictureยป 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 ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ
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 ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ emoji is used
The ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ 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 โ below you can see how man tipping hand: dark skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
๐พ SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
๐พ SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
๐พ 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 ยท Gender
- ๐ person tipping hand
- ๐๐ป person tipping hand: light skin tone
- ๐๐ผ person tipping hand: medium-light skin tone
- ๐๐ฝ person tipping hand: medium skin tone
- ๐๐พ person tipping hand: medium-dark skin tone
- ๐๐ฟ person tipping hand: dark skin tone
- ๐โโ๏ธ man tipping hand
- ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ man tipping hand: light skin tone
- ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ man tipping hand: medium-light skin tone
- ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ man tipping hand: medium skin tone
- ๐๐พโโ๏ธ man tipping hand: medium-dark skin tone
- ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ man tipping hand: dark skin tone
- ๐โโ๏ธ woman tipping hand
- ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ woman tipping hand: light skin tone
- ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ woman tipping hand: medium-light skin tone
- ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ woman tipping hand: medium skin tone
- ๐๐พโโ๏ธ woman tipping hand: medium-dark skin tone
- ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ woman tipping hand: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
Unicode CLDR 48