👳Person Wearing Turban Emoji
Generally, the emoji means someone is identifying themselves as Sikh or referencing Sikh culture. It's often just a way to represent a person’s identity.
The 👳 emoji represents a person wearing a turban.
- Unicode
- U+1F473
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :man_with_turban:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👳 Person Wearing Turban emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Person Wearing Turban emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F473. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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 Wearing Turban emoji skin tones
👳 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Person Wearing Turban 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 :man_with_turban:.
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+1F473.
How to type the 👳 Person Wearing Turban emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Person Wearing Turban emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person wearing turban as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Person Wearing Turban emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person wearing turban 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 wearing turban and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 👳 means in other countries
Designed to depict the Sikh dastar, though most people who send it don’t know that and use it as generic “turban guy.”
A specific religious garment, the dastar, not an ethnic or regional placeholder
Often stands in loosely for “someone from the Middle East” or simply “religious”
Sometimes assumed to represent Muslim dress specifically, which it doesn’t
Before you send it: If you mean Sikh identity it’s accurate; for anything else it’s an easy mismatch worth double-checking.
What 👳 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F473, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
👳 vs 👲 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
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.
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.
Where the 👳 Person Wearing Turban 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+1F473 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 EB15, SoftBank E517.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Person Wearing Turban was approved as U+1F473 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.