Guard

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Shortcode: :guard:
Unicode: U+1F482
HTML: 💂
CSS: \1F482
JavaScript: "\u{1F482}"
URL: %F0%9F%92%82

What 💂 means

A guard in a red tunic and tall black bearskin hat, the uniform of the ceremonial guards at Buckingham Palace. It stands for London, Britain and royal tradition.

Travelers use it for trips to London, often with 🇬🇧 or 🎡. The guards are famous for standing still and keeping a straight face, so the emoji also means staying stoic or on duty no matter what.

Facts

Guard 💂 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :guard:. People also look for it with words like “buckingham”, “helmet”, “london”, or “palace”.