👨🏻
man: light skin tone
Unicode: 1F468 1F3FB
Description
A man emoji with light skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > person
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, represents a male individual.
Backstory
This emoji is part of a larger set of human emojis introduced to represent diverse individuals. The 'man' emoji (1F468) came with Unicode 6.0 (2010), and the light skin tone modifier (1F3FB) was added in Unicode 8.0 (2015) to allow for greater diversity in representation.
Usage Examples
- To represent a man: 'He's such a great guy! 👨🏻'
- In a professional context: 'The new manager 👨🏻 arrived today.'
- Describing family: 'My brother 👨🏻 works downtown.'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used to represent a man in various contexts, including professional, personal, or generic.
East Asian culture:
Generally used in the same way, representing a man or male figure.