👨🏿 Man: Dark Skin Tone Emoji

Copy and paste the Man: Dark Skin Tone emoji (👨🏿) in one click. View its People & Fantasy meaning, Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015) sequence (U+1F468 U+1F3FF), and cross-platform appearance.

What Does the Man: Dark Skin Tone Emoji Mean?

Unicode Definition: Illustrates man (👨🏿). Standardized in Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015) (U+1F468 U+1F3FF). Featuring Fitzpatrick Type 6 (Dark Skin Tone, U+1F3FF), it offers personalized representation.

Context & Expression: Highlights human action, career identity, athletic dedication, hobby passion, or imaginative roleplay in everyday digital storytelling.

Usage Note: Man: Dark Skin Tone (👨🏿) is popular in profile bios, workout trackers, and team status updates to represent active routines or roles.

Modern Texting & Social Usage

Widely used on LinkedIn, Instagram bios, Strava/fitness check-ins, and group chats to represent one's profession, workout routine, weekend sport, or "main character energy" (👨🏿).

💡 Quick Usage Tip:

Combine 👨🏿 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.

Real-Life Chat Examples

See how the Man: Dark Skin Tone emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.

Sam

What are you up to this afternoon? Still down to hang out later?

You

Finishing up my session right now 👨🏿 give me 45 minutes and I'm all yours!

Sam

Bet, text me when you're wrapping up!

When to Use 👨🏿

Showcasing your profession, sport, workout, or hobby in social media bios and status updates.
Sharing fitness milestones, career announcements, or weekend activity plans.
Adding visual personality to team Slack statuses and calendar invites.

When to Avoid 👨🏿

Unpatched legacy browsers if using newer ZWJ or directional sequences that may decompose into separate symbols.
Strict plain-text forms that strip multi-byte UTF-8 sequences.

CROSS-PLATFORM DISPLAY

How Man: Dark Skin Tone Looks Across Operating Systems & Fonts

Apple iOS renders detailed 3D apparel and equipment; Google Android uses vibrant, readable flat-vector colors; Microsoft Windows uses shaded Fluent character models.

👨🏿

Apple iOS / macOS Rendering

High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting

System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'

Platform / Vendor	Glyph Preview	System Emoji Font	Rendering Behavior
Apple iOS / macOS	👨🏿	`Apple Color Emoji`	High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
Google Android	👨🏿	`Noto Color Emoji`	Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry
Samsung One UI	👨🏿	`Samsung Color Emoji`	Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling
Microsoft Windows	👨🏿	`Segoe UI Emoji`	Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags)
X / Discord (Twemoji)	👨🏿	`Twitter Color Emoji`	Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography

Technical & Developer Specifications

Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.

Character	👨🏿
Official Unicode Name	Man: Dark Skin Tone
Unicode Code Point	`U+1F468 U+1F3FF`
HTML Decimal Entity	`👨🏿`
HTML Hex Entity	`👨🏿`
CSS Escape Code	`\01F468\01F3FF`
JavaScript / ES6 Escape	`\u{1F468}\u{1F3FF}`
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	`F0 9F 91 A8 F0 9F 8F BF`
Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub)	`:man_dark_skin_tone:`
Emoji / Unicode Version	Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015)
Category & Subgroup	People & Fantasy (person)

Frequently Asked Questions About Man: Dark Skin Tone (👨🏿)

Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.

What is the emotional and conversational meaning of Man: Dark Skin Tone (👨🏿)?

Highlights human action, career identity, athletic dedication, hobby passion, or imaginative roleplay in everyday digital storytelling. It belongs to the People & Fantasy category and was standardized in Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015).

How is the Man: Dark Skin Tone emoji (👨🏿) used on TikTok, Instagram, and Discord?

Widely used on LinkedIn, Instagram bios, Strava/fitness check-ins, and group chats to represent one's profession, workout routine, weekend sport, or "main character energy" (👨🏿).

How do I copy and paste 👨🏿 on iPhone, Android, Mac, or Windows?

Click the "Copy Emoji (👨🏿)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.

What are the Unicode, HTML, CSS, and JS developer codes for Man: Dark Skin Tone?

The Unicode code point is U+1F468 U+1F3FF (Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015)). In HTML use 👨🏿 or 👨🏿; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F468\01F3FF"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F468}\u{1F3FF}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :man_dark_skin_tone:.

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