U+1F482 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ Man guard: medium skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Professions & Roles
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 9.0 (2016)
- Emoji version
- 4.0 (2016)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What ๐๐ฝโโ๏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
guard
U+1F482 -
๐ฝ
skin tone
U+1F3FD -
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 ๐๐ฝโโ๏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 ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ emoji is used
The ๐๐ฝโโ๏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 guard: medium skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- ๐๐ฝโโ๏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 guard
- ๐๐ป guard: light skin tone
- ๐๐ผ guard: medium-light skin tone
- ๐๐ฝ guard: medium skin tone
- ๐๐พ guard: medium-dark skin tone
- ๐๐ฟ guard: dark skin tone
- ๐โโ๏ธ man guard
- ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ man guard: light skin tone
- ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ man guard: medium-light skin tone
- ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ man guard: medium skin tone
- ๐๐พโโ๏ธ man guard: medium-dark skin tone
- ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ man guard: dark skin tone
- ๐โโ๏ธ woman guard
- ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ woman guard: light skin tone
- ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ woman guard: medium-light skin tone
- ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ woman guard: medium skin tone
- ๐๐พโโ๏ธ woman guard: medium-dark skin tone
- ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ woman guard: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | man guard: medium skin tone |
|---|---|
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ะผัะถัะธะฝะฐ-ะณะฒะฐัะดะตะตั: ััะตะดะฝะธะน ัะพะฝ ะบะพะถะธ |
| Deutsch | Wachsoldat: mittlere Hautfarbe |
| Espaรฑol | guardia hombre: tono de piel medio |
| Franรงais | garde hommeโฏ: peau lรฉgรจrement mate |
| Polski | mฤลผczyzna gwardzista: karnacja ลrednia |
| Dansk | mandlig garder: medium teint |
| ะฃะบัะฐัะฝััะบะฐ | ะฒะฐััะพะฒะธะน: ะฟะพะผััะฝะธะน ัะพะฝ ัะบััะธ |
| Portuguรชs | guarda homem: pele morena |
Unicode CLDR 48
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