👨

Man Emoji 👨

What 👨 means

This man's face is a generic one, clean-shaven, with short, fringy hair. He has a mustache on some platforms. This emoji is a general reference to a human man, which can be a plural attribution too.

Although the 👨 Man emoji holds good for any conversation or situation that says 'man' (literally. We don't do metaphors with genders). This emoji is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing a post or story about an influential man, like a scientist, a singer, a sportsman, the president, anyone, you could use 👨 in the caption.
Use 👨 while texting someone close about a beautiful, cringe, or even gross encounter that you had with a stranger (a man, duh).
If you're posting something for father's day or international men's' day, anything related to a man, use the 👨 emoji as a generic emoji option (there are niche emojis too, not to worry).
If you met the man of your dreams and you're finally revealing him to your friends or social media, you can use 👨 in the captions.

Other Names

👨 Male
👨 Dude
👨 Fellow
👨 Sir
👨 Mr
👨 Gentleman
👨 Guy
👨 Manly
👨 Mustache
👨 Masculine
👨 He
👨 Macho
👨 Machismo (maybe)

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person
Codepoints: U+1F468
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :man:
Keywords: adult, bro, man

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.