People & Body · Emoji 4.0
👨💼Man Office Worker Emoji
Usually, it just means a man in a business setting. People use it to represent someone who works in an office or has a professional job.
The 👨💼 emoji is a man wearing a suit.
- Unicode
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F4BC
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :male-
office- worker: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👨💼 Man Office Worker emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
02 — Platforms
Man Office Worker 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 office worker looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Office Worker emoji skin tones
👨💼 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Man Office Worker emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :male-office-worker:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F468.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👨💼 Man Office Worker emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F468 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Man Office Worker emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man Office Worker emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man office worker for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 👨💼 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the man office worker and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 👨💼 means in other countries
Reads as a suited professional; the briefcase carries a formal, buttoned-up tone rather than casual work.
often used ironically for “corporate drone” humor rather than as a literal compliment
plain and expected, matches old-school “businessman” imagery without any extra reading
sometimes signals a stable office job, which functions as a small status cue in some cultures
Before you send it: Fine for career updates; skip it if you want to avoid the slightly stiff, corporate connotation.
10 — Apps
What 👨💼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — Difference
👨💼 vs 👳♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Office Worker
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F4BC · added 2016
Shortcode: :male-office-worker:
Usually, it just means a man in a business setting.
Unicode name: Man Wearing Turban
Code: U+1F473 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-wearing-turban:
Generally, it means a man with a turban.
13 — History
Where the 👨💼 Man Office Worker emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F468 U+200D U+1F4BC 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.
Man Office Worker was approved as U+1F468 U+200D U+1F4BC and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👨💼 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ