People & Body · Emoji 0.6
👴Old Man Emoji
Generally, it just means “old man.” People use it to represent someone who is elderly or to show a bit of admiration for older people.
The 👴 emoji represents an older man.
- Unicode
- U+1F474
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :older_
man: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👴 Old Man emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 9.
02 — Platforms
Old Man emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the old man as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Old Man 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
Old Man 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 :older_man:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F474.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👴 Old Man emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F474 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Old 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Old Man emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around old man 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 — 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.
11 — Difference
👴 vs 👨🦲 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Old Man
Code: U+1F474 · added 2010
Shortcode: :older_man:
Generally, it just means “old man.”
Unicode name: Man Bald
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B2 · added 2018
Shortcode: :bald_man:
Generally, it's used to compliment a man's bald head and suggest he looks strong and confident.
12 — History
Where the 👴 Old 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+1F474 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 EB16, SoftBank E518.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Old Man was approved as U+1F474 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.
13 — FAQ