man wearing turban: light skin tone
Unicode: 1F473 1F3FB 200D 2642 FE0F
Description
A person wearing a turban, with light skin tone, depicted as a man.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, represents a specific cultural or religious attire. Can be used in contexts of identity, diversity, or specific roles.
Backstory
This emoji sequence combines 'Person Wearing Turban' (1F473), light skin tone (1F3FB), Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ, 200D), 'Male Sign' (2642), and Variation Selector-16 (FE0F) to explicitly represent a man with a light skin tone wearing a turban. The base 'Person Wearing Turban' was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010), with gender and skin tone modifiers becoming available later to increase specificity.
Usage Examples
- Describing a character in a story: 'The brave adventurer was a 👳🏻♂️ from the desert lands.'
- Representing diversity in a group: 'Our team includes people from all walks of life, including a 👳🏻♂️.'
- Referring to a specific profession/role: 'The kind 👳🏻♂️ at the temple welcomed everyone.'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
May be used to denote someone of Middle Eastern, South Asian, or Sikh background, often within a diverse group of people.
East Asian culture:
Similar interpretation, representing diversity or specific cultural/religious identities.