👨Man Emoji
Generally, it just means “man” or “male”. People use it to represent a guy or a person when they’re talking about someone of that gender.
The 👨 emoji represents a man.
- Unicode
- U+1F468
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :man:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👨 Man emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Man emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F468 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Man emoji skin tones
👨 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Man emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F468.
How to type the 👨 Man emoji
No picker to hand? The man can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Man emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Man emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👨, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👨 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 👨 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the man lands changes how it is taken.
👨 vs 👨🦱 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man
Code: U+1F468 · added 2010
Shortcode: :man:
Generally, it just means “man” or “male”.
Unicode name: Man Curly Hair
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B1 · added 2018
Shortcode: :curly_haired_man:
Generally, it just means a man with curly hair.
Where the 👨 Man emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F468 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👨 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6F0, KDDI au E4FC, SoftBank E004.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Man was approved as U+1F468 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👨 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.