🫱🏼
rightwards hand: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 1FAF1 1F3FC
Description
A man emoji with a medium-light skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > hand-fingers-open
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents a male individual, often used to refer to men in general, or to specify gender when context is needed.
Backstory
The gendered person emoji was first introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Skin tone modifiers, including 1F3FC (Emoji Component: Medium-Light Skin Tone), were added in Unicode 8.0 (2015) to allow for more diverse representation.
Usage Examples
- Referring to a male person: 'He is a great person. 👨🏼'
- Indicating male gender: 'Looking for a male model. 👨🏼'
- In combination with other emojis to form families or groups: '👨🏼👩👧' (Family with a man, woman, and boy).
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used as a general male identifier in various contexts.
East Asian culture:
Similar to Western usage, a general male identifier.