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๐Ÿ‘จ Man emoji

[man ih-moh-jee]


What does ๐Ÿ‘จ Man emoji mean?

The man emoji is basically just a generic adult man. Itโ€™s sequenced with other emoji to show a variety of male identities, like the man farmer, and diverse families and relationships, such as two men kissing.

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Where does ๐Ÿ‘จ Man emoji come from?

The man emoji was approved in 2010 under Unicode 6.0 along with other people emoji such as the girlboybaby, and woman emoji.

Apple and WhatsApp, for instance, display the man emoji with blonde hair and a mustache. Others platforms like Samsung and Facebook feature brown hair. Googleโ€™s design notably lacks a mustache.

The default skin tone for the emoji is yellow, but users have the option to change skin tone โ€ฆ except on older platforms that donโ€™t support those modifiers. Time for an upgrade.

The man emoji shouldnโ€™t be confused with the boy emoji ๐Ÿ‘ฆ, who lacks a mustache, or the old man emoji ๐Ÿ‘ด, who lacks a full head of hair.

While the man emoji can be and is used on its own, platforms sequence it with many other emoji to produce a wide range of other male forms. The man emoji ๐Ÿ‘จ plus the cooking emoji ๐Ÿณ, for instance, yields the man cook emoji ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ, which up-to-date operating systems transform into a single image, because technology.

These magic transformations also create diverse family configurations and relationships other than the traditional husband-wife partnership or father-mother parents. For instance, the family: man, man, girl, girl emoji, ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ง, shows two daughters whose parents are two dads, sequenced with two girl emoji and two man emoji.

Examples of ๐Ÿ‘จ Man emoji

Happy Father's Day ๐Ÿ‘จโœจ
@stevehanash, June, 2017
1 month till graduation ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“
@RMineo_05,ย May, 2018
I'm so incredibly lucky to have such a close family like mine, wouldn't change it for the world, so grateful โค๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ง
@Chelsea_Markham,ย June, 2017

Who uses ๐Ÿ‘จ Man emoji?

The man emoji can be used alone on social media and in text messages relating to things related to adult men, such as work or โ€œacting like a man.โ€

It often gets paired with various emoji to represent various male professionals, activities, or identities. The man emoji plus the ear of rice emoji ๐ŸŒพ becomes the man farmer emoji.

The man emoji plus the artist palette emoji portrays the man artist emoji, as another example.

The man emoji figures into other man, child, and love emoji to represent male same-sex relationships and families.

When paired with a child-based emoji, the man emoji can mark content dealing with fatherhood more generally, especially on Fatherโ€™s Day.


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