U+1F9DD U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F

🧝🏿‍♂️ Man elf: dark skin tone

Skin tone A click copies the symbol with the chosen tone — no need to open a separate page.

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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.

  1. 🧝 elf U+1F9DD
  2. 🏿 skin tone U+1F3FF
  3. invisible joiner U+200D
  4. male sign U+2642
  5. «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 elf: dark skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English man elf: dark skin tone
Русский мужчина-эльф: очень темный тон кожи
Deutsch Elf: dunkle Hautfarbe
Español elfo hombre: tono de piel oscuro
Français elfe homme : peau foncée
Polski mężczyzna elf: karnacja ciemna
Dansk elvermand: mørk teint
Українська чоловік-ельф: темний тон шкіри
Português elfo homem: pele escura

Unicode CLDR 48