old man: medium-dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F474 1F3FE
Description
An emoji depicting a person with a bald head, facing forward, with light skin tone. It represents a bald person or a person without hair.
Group:
People & Body > person
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral; conveys a physical attribute rather than an emotion. Can be used to refer to someone who is bald, or to represent baldness in general.
Backstory
The 👨🏻🦲 emoji (Man: Light Skin Tone, Bald) was added in Emoji 12.0 (2019) and Unicode 12.0. The individual bald person (without explicit gender, 1F9D1 1F9B2) was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017) and Unicode 10.0, representing a person with a bald head. This specific sequence (1F474 1F3FE) combines a bald head emoji (1F474 - which was actually an old man/older male character, often bald by default in early interpretations) with a skin tone modifier, although the more direct and modern combined bald person emoji is typically 1F9D1 1F9B2 or gendered versions. The 1F474 (old man) base emoji was part of Unicode 6.0 (2010), representing an older male character, often depicted as bald.
Usage Examples
- Describing someone's appearance: 'My uncle is 👨🏻🦲 and wears glasses.'
- Referring to hair loss: 'He started going 👨🏻🦲 in his twenties.'
- Identifying a character: 'The villain in the movie was 👨🏻🦲 and muscular.'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Often used simply to identify someone as bald, or to discuss hair loss. Can be perceived as a neutral descriptor.
East Asian culture:
Generally a neutral descriptor, similar to Western use. Might be used in contexts of 'monk' or 'elder' implicitly, depending on context.