People & Body · Emoji 4.0
💆♂️Man Getting Massage Emoji
Generally, it means someone is relaxing, stressed, or needs a break. People use it in chats to express they’re taking it easy or need some TLC.
The 💆♂️ emoji shows a man lying down with his eyes closed, receiving a massage.
- Unicode
- U+1F486 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :man-
getting- massage: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 💆♂️ Man Getting Massage emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 13 of them.
02 — Platforms
Man Getting Massage emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F486 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man getting massage looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Getting Massage 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 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 :man-getting-massage:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F486.
05 — How to type
How to type the 💆♂️ Man Getting Massage emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F486 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Man Getting Massage emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man getting massage as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man Getting Massage emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man getting massage 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
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: Man Getting Massage
Code: U+1F486 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-getting-massage:
Generally, it means someone is relaxing, stressed, or needs a break.
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.
12 — History
Where the 💆♂️ Man Getting Massage emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 4.0, the man getting massage has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F486 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 Getting Massage was approved as U+1F486 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.
13 — FAQ