💆Person Getting Massage Emoji
It generally means someone is feeling stressed, needs to relax, or wants to talk about a stressful situation. People often use it to say they’re taking a moment to de-stress.
The 💆 emoji shows a person with their eyes closed and hands resting on their face.
- Unicode
- U+1F486
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :massage:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 💆 Person Getting Massage emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 13.
Person Getting Massage emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the person getting massage has been drawn in 3 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 Getting Massage emoji skin tones
💆 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Person Getting Massage 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 :massage:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F486.
How to type the 💆 Person Getting Massage emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Person Getting Massage emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person getting massage 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 Getting Massage emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person getting massage 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 💆 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the person getting massage lands changes how it is taken.
💆 vs 💇♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Getting Massage
Code: U+1F486 · added 2010
Shortcode: :massage:
It generally means someone is feeling stressed, needs to relax, or wants to talk about a stressful situation.
Unicode name: Woman Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-getting-haircut:
Basically, it’s just a fun way to represent getting a haircut.
Where the 💆 Person Getting Massage 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+1F486 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 E50B, SoftBank E31E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Person Getting Massage was approved as U+1F486 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.