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👴️ Old man emoji

👴️

Emoji #256

HTML

👴

Unicode

U+1F474

What is 👴️ called?

👴️ is called the Old man emoji.

Commonly called the older man, elderly man, or grandfather emoji. “Grandpa” is affectionate context, but the character need not be anyone’s grandfather.

What does 👴️ mean?

👴 is officially named old man. It represents an older male adult and can refer to an elderly man, grandfather, senior man, ageing, experience, or later life.

Use it for a grandad, older relative, senior colleague, retirement, family generations, or a story involving an older man. Age does not automatically imply weakness or one personality. Related choices include 🧓 Older person and 👨 Man.

Other meanings

It can mean an older man, elderly male, grandfather, grandpa, senior, elder, retirement, ageing, experience, or later life.

Example Usage

Grandad told that story again at dinner 👴

The older man volunteers at the museum 👴

More details

Officially named old man. Its code point is U+1F474. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0. It supports the standard five skin-tone modifiers.

Variants

👴🏻

Light skin tone

👴🏻

👴🏼

Medium-light skin tone

👴🏼

👴🏽

Medium skin tone

👴🏽

👴🏾

Medium-dark skin tone

👴🏾

👴🏿

Dark skin tone

👴🏿

Visual description

An older male-presenting face has wrinkles, pale hair at the sides, and often a balding crown.

The older facial features distinguish it from the adult man and from the gender-neutral older person. Colours and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.

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