👨‍🏫

Man Teacher Emoji 👨‍🏫

What 👨‍🏫 means

Formal clothes, square-framed glasses, and neatly side-parted hair mark this male teacher, cropped at the shoulders and standing in front of a teaching board. In most platforms, he is seen holding a book such that just the top half of it is seen.

The 👨‍🏫 Man Teacher emoji is a generic reference to any male teacher, mentor, and guide. This emoji signifies knowledge, expertise, skill, and a sense of eagerness to impart knowledge amongst young minds. It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

You can use 👨‍🏫 to describe a person who's a teacher, or your own (not in a mocking sense, but just as a general description).
If you're drafting a story that has a male teacher in it, you can use 👨‍🏫 to indicate that particular story.
If you're a male teacher, you use 👨‍🏫 in your post captions (while posting anything about teaching, school, etc) or just in your profile name.
You can also use 👨‍🏫 in the context of wishing someone in particular or all teachers in general for Teacher's Day.
If you're playing teacher to your best buddy who is need of some serious guidance in the life skills and maybe even the sense department, you can use 👨‍🏫 before proceeding with the course.

Other Names

👨‍🏫 Teacher
👨‍🏫 Mentor
👨‍🏫 Male Mentor
👨‍🏫 Guide
👨‍🏫 Professor
👨‍🏫 Lecturer
👨‍🏫 Wisdom
👨‍🏫 Expertise
👨‍🏫 Passion
👨‍🏫 Learning
👨‍🏫 Education
👨‍🏫 Teacher's Day
👨‍🏫 Sir
👨‍🏫 Respectable

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F3EB
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :male-teacher: Slack:man_teacher: Discord
Keywords: instructor, lecturer, man, professor, teacher
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.