U+1F647 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
ππ½ββοΈ Man bowing: 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 bowing
U+1F647 -
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 bowing: 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 bowing
- ππ» person bowing: light skin tone
- ππΌ person bowing: medium-light skin tone
- ππ½ person bowing: medium skin tone
- ππΎ person bowing: medium-dark skin tone
- ππΏ person bowing: dark skin tone
- πββοΈ man bowing
- ππ»ββοΈ man bowing: light skin tone
- ππΌββοΈ man bowing: medium-light skin tone
- ππ½ββοΈ man bowing: medium skin tone
- ππΎββοΈ man bowing: medium-dark skin tone
- ππΏββοΈ man bowing: dark skin tone
- πββοΈ woman bowing
- ππ»ββοΈ woman bowing: light skin tone
- ππΌββοΈ woman bowing: medium-light skin tone
- ππ½ββοΈ woman bowing: medium skin tone
- ππΎββοΈ woman bowing: medium-dark skin tone
- ππΏββοΈ woman bowing: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
Unicode CLDR 48