👨‍🎓

Man Student Emoji 👨‍🎓

What 👨‍🎓 means

Short hair, a black outfit (at least by the minimal look of it), and a square academic cap: this is a man shown from the shoulders up. Although not very excited, he does seem content.

The 👨‍🎓 Man Student emoji suggests a sense of pride that most students would have on their graduation day. It signifies accomplishment, education, wisdom, and that feeling of finally stepping into adulthood (although it sucks, it still gives us independence, so hurray).

How and when to use it

If you're proud of a certain discovery of yours, be it of any magnitude, you can use 👨‍🎓 while flaunting about it with your friends. (However, it might seem like you're flaunting your knowledge, which, you are, indeed).
If you're posting stories or photos on/of your graduation day, you might want to consider popping in the 👨‍🎓 emoji into your captions for extra effect.
You can use 👨‍🎓 to refer to literacy, being learned, and educated.
👨‍🎓 can also be used in general post captions for posts regarding education, academics, and college.
You can also use 👨‍🎓 while telling someone about your graduation or your future college plans.
👨‍🎓 also suggests higher education, you know, the masters, the Ph.D., etc, etc.
If you're talking about yourself or someone you know who recently graduated, you can add 👨‍🎓 to your conversation.

Other Names

👨‍🎓 Education
👨‍🎓 Accomplishment
👨‍🎓 Graduated
👨‍🎓 Graduation
👨‍🎓 College Degree
👨‍🎓 Achievement
👨‍🎓 Pride
👨‍🎓 Literacy
👨‍🎓 Learned
👨‍🎓 Learning
👨‍🎓 Higher Education
👨‍🎓 Knowledge

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F393
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :male-student: Slack:man_student: Discord
Keywords: graduate, man, student
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.