👲Person with Skullcap Emoji
Basically, it’s used to show you’re thinking about China, Asian culture, or someone who looks like they might be Chinese. It’s often just a fun way to add a little visual flair to a message.
Also searched as chinese emoji
The 👲 emoji, called "Person Skullcap," represents a man wearing a traditional Chinese hat, often called a jiapao hat.
- Unicode
- U+1F472
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :man_with_gua_pi_mao:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👲 Person with Skullcap emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
People also look for it as chinese emoji, cap emoji.
Person with Skullcap emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the person with skullcap has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Person with Skullcap emoji skin tones
👲 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Person with Skullcap emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man_with_gua_pi_mao:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the person with skullcap, code point U+1F472.
How to type the 👲 Person with Skullcap emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F472 when there is no key at all.
Person with Skullcap 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
Person with Skullcap emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person with skullcap 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
Who sent the person with skullcap and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 👲 means in other countries
Named generically, but its look echoes an old caricature of Chinese men, so readers split between “festive cap” and “stereotype.”
Read as a traditional gua pi mao skullcap specifically tied to the holiday
Recognized instead as a dated ethnic caricature carried over from old cartoons
Occasionally mistaken for a Jewish yarmulke, which isn’t actually what it depicts
Before you send it: Better to use a plain person or a specific hat emoji unless you specifically mean the festive cap.
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.
👲 vs 👳 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person with Skullcap
Code: U+1F472 · added 2010
Shortcode: :man_with_gua_pi_mao:
Basically, it’s used to show you’re thinking about China, Asian culture, or someone who looks like they might be Chinese.
Unicode name: Person Wearing Turban
Code: U+1F473 · added 2010
Shortcode: :man_with_turban:
Generally, the emoji means someone is identifying themselves as Sikh or referencing Sikh culture.
Where the 👲 Person with Skullcap 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+1F472 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
KDDI au EB14, SoftBank E516.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Person with Skullcap was approved as U+1F472 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.