U+1F9B9 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
🦹🏾♂️ Man supervillain: medium-dark skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Fantasy Characters
- 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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🦹
supervillain
U+1F9B9 -
🏾
skin tone
U+1F3FE -
⛓
invisible joiner
U+200D -
♂
male sign
U+2642 -
️
«draw as a picture» 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 🦹🏾♂️
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 supervillain: medium-dark skin tone 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
- 🦹 supervillain
- 🦹🏻 supervillain: light skin tone
- 🦹🏼 supervillain: medium-light skin tone
- 🦹🏽 supervillain: medium skin tone
- 🦹🏾 supervillain: medium-dark skin tone
- 🦹🏿 supervillain: dark skin tone
- 🦹♂️ man supervillain
- 🦹🏻♂️ man supervillain: light skin tone
- 🦹🏼♂️ man supervillain: medium-light skin tone
- 🦹🏽♂️ man supervillain: medium skin tone
- 🦹🏾♂️ man supervillain: medium-dark skin tone
- 🦹🏿♂️ man supervillain: dark skin tone
- 🦹♀️ woman supervillain
- 🦹🏻♀️ woman supervillain: light skin tone
- 🦹🏼♀️ woman supervillain: medium-light skin tone
- 🦹🏽♀️ woman supervillain: medium skin tone
- 🦹🏾♀️ woman supervillain: medium-dark skin tone
- 🦹🏿♀️ woman supervillain: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
Unicode CLDR 48
