People & Body · Emoji 11.0
🦸♂️Man Superhero Emoji
Generally, 🦸♂️ means someone is acting like a superhero – brave, strong, or doing something amazing. People often use it to express admiration or support.
The 🦸♂️ emoji is a muscular man wearing a superhero cape.
- Unicode
- U+1F9B8 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :male_
superhero: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🦸♂️ Man Superhero emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Man Superhero emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9B8 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man superhero 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 Superhero 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 Superhero emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :male_superhero:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the man superhero, code point U+1F9B8.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🦸♂️ Man Superhero emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Man Superhero emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man superhero 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 Superhero emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man superhero 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
Who sent the man superhero and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🦸♂️ means in other countries
Same cape imagery here, reads as ordinary praise, and matches the classic comic-book default pretty closely.
a “you’re a lifesaver” type compliment that lands the same in most workplaces
often ties to one specific male character depending on the actual conversation
works as lighthearted hype with essentially no deeper reading behind it
Before you send it: Straightforward praise emoji here, nothing about it really needs to be flagged in most chats.
10 — Apps
What 🦸♂️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the man superhero lands changes how it is taken.
12 — Difference
🦸♂️ vs 🦸♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Superhero
Code: U+1F9B8 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2018
Shortcode: :male_superhero:
Generally, 🦸♂️ means someone is acting like a superhero – brave, strong, or doing something amazing.
Unicode name: Woman Superhero
Code: U+1F9B8 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2018
Shortcode: :female_superhero:
Generally, it means someone is being portrayed as a hero, or they embody heroic qualities.
13 — History
Where the 🦸♂️ Man Superhero emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9B8 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 Superhero was approved as U+1F9B8 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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.
14 — FAQ