People & Body · Emoji 4.0
👮♂️Man Police Officer Emoji
Generally, the 👮♂️ emoji means a police officer or someone in a law enforcement role. It’s often used to represent rules, security, or authority.
The 👮♂️ emoji shows a male police officer.
- Unicode
- U+1F46E U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :male-
police- officer: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👮♂️ Man Police Officer emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 11.
02 — Platforms
Man Police Officer emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F46E. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Police Officer 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 Police Officer 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-police-officer:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the man police officer, code point U+1F46E.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👮♂️ Man Police Officer emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Man Police Officer 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 Police Officer emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man police officer 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 👮♂️ means in other countries
No cultural flip here — just the standard literal-versus-joking gap that applies to any police emoji.
Represents an actual officer or the police as an institution, plainly stated
Playful stand-in for someone being overly strict about small, unimportant rules
Can read as siding with or against law enforcement depending on how it’s framed
Before you send it: Keep it literal in serious threads; it’s only safe as a joke among people who share your sense of humor.
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 Police Officer
Code: U+1F46E U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :male-police-officer:
Generally, the 👮♂️ emoji means a police officer or someone in a law enforcement role.
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 Police Officer emoji came from
It arrived with the 4.0 release of the standard, which dates the man police officer to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F46E U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F 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 Police Officer was approved as U+1F46E U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F 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