U+1F9DA U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
🧚🏻♂️ Man fairy: light skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Fantasy Characters
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 10.0 (2017)
- Emoji version
- 5.0 (2017)
- 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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🧚
fairy
U+1F9DA -
🏻
skin tone
U+1F3FB -
⛓
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 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 🧚🏻♂️ 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 fairy: light 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
- 🧚 fairy
- 🧚🏻 fairy: light skin tone
- 🧚🏼 fairy: medium-light skin tone
- 🧚🏽 fairy: medium skin tone
- 🧚🏾 fairy: medium-dark skin tone
- 🧚🏿 fairy: dark skin tone
- 🧚♂️ man fairy
- 🧚🏻♂️ man fairy: light skin tone
- 🧚🏼♂️ man fairy: medium-light skin tone
- 🧚🏽♂️ man fairy: medium skin tone
- 🧚🏾♂️ man fairy: medium-dark skin tone
- 🧚🏿♂️ man fairy: dark skin tone
- 🧚♀️ woman fairy
- 🧚🏻♀️ woman fairy: light skin tone
- 🧚🏼♀️ woman fairy: medium-light skin tone
- 🧚🏽♀️ woman fairy: medium skin tone
- 🧚🏾♀️ woman fairy: medium-dark skin tone
- 🧚🏿♀️ woman fairy: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | man fairy: light skin tone |
|---|---|
| Русский | мужчина-фея: очень светлый тон кожи |
| Deutsch | männliche Fee: helle Hautfarbe |
| Español | hada hombre: tono de piel claro |
| Français | féetaud : peau claire |
| Polski | mężczyzna wróżka: karnacja jasna |
| Dansk | mandlig fe: lys teint |
| Українська | чоловік-фея: світлий тон шкіри |
| Português | homem fada: pele clara |
Unicode CLDR 48
