man construction worker: light skin tone
Unicode: 1F477 1F3FB 200D 2642 FE0F
Description
A person wearing a hard hat, a yellow safety helmet, facing right, with a male sign.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Typically represents a construction worker, engineer, or someone involved in manual labor or safety-related professions.
Backstory
This emoji sequence combines several characters to represent a specific gender and skin tone for a person wearing a hard hat. The base emoji (👷) was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010). The skin tone modifier (🏻) and the male sign (♂️) with Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) and Variation Selector-16 (VS-16) were added later for more precise representation.
Usage Examples
- Talking about a construction project: 'The new building is almost finished 👷🏻♂️'
- Referring to an engineer: 'My brother is an engineer 👷🏻♂️'
- Discussing manual labor: 'It's hard work, but someone's gotta do it 👷🏻♂️'
- Representing safety: 'Safety first on the job site 👷🏻♂️'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly depicted as a construction worker or professional in a blue-collar trade. Can be used in contexts of building, repair, or hard work.
East Asian culture:
Similar interpretation, often used in contexts of urban development, engineering, or industrial work.