What ๐จโ๐ means
A man in a space suit and helmet, used for male astronauts and space exploration.
It suits launch-day posts, science class and sci-fi talk. In investing and crypto chat it can join ๐ and ๐ for a price that is โgoing to the moonโ. Friends also use it for someone who seems spaced out.
Facts
Man astronaut ๐จโ๐ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐จ man and ๐ rocket. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :man_astronaut:. People also look for it with words like โastronautโ, โmanโ, โrocketโ, or โspaceโ.
Made of
๐จ+๐=๐จโ๐
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
- 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 4.0