👨‍🦳

Man: White Hair Emoji 👨‍🦳

What 👨‍🦳 means

This man's face shows white hair, white eyebrows, and a white mustache to match. Given the amount of white or rather grey facial hair, the 👨‍🦳 emoji might refer to an old man.

However, grey is not always the crown of old age, it can also refer to fashion, younger men with grey hair, and most importantly, the endearing salt & pepper look.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're referring to an aged man who's not a Grandfather, use 👨‍🦳 as a way of describing him.
You can also use 👨‍🦳 if you're referring to a mature man (someone you're also attracted to, of course) in your private chats with close friends.
👨‍🦳 can also be used as a reaction to some blissful salt and pepper hair that you came across on social media, along with lots of hearts and other cute emojis.
BTW, 👨‍🦳 does not refer to grandad, it's just a man with white/grey hair, so please refrain from using it in that reference.
If you're recommending the salt pepper or just white/grey look to someone, use 👨‍🦳 in that conversation.

Other Names

👨‍🦳 White Hair
👨‍🦳 Grey Tresses
👨‍🦳 Salt and Pepper Look
👨‍🦳 Grey Hair
👨‍🦳 Elderly
👨‍🦳 Aging Man
👨‍🦳 Greying
👨‍🦳 Salt Pepper
👨‍🦳 Man With Grey Hair
👨‍🦳 Greys
👨‍🦳 Aging Like Fine Wine
👨‍🦳 Aged

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person
Codepoints: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B3
Emoji version: Emoji 11.0
Shortcodes: :white_haired_man: Slack:man_white_haired: Discord
Keywords: adult, bro, man, white hair
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.