What ๐จโ๐ means
A man in fire gear and a helmet, used for male firefighters and first responders.
Families post it with pride for a son, partner or dad on the crew. It also shows up in jokes about a dish so spicy it needs a fire crew, with ๐ถ๏ธ and ๐ฅ. Flirty texts use it too, for someone so hot the fire department should come.
Facts
Man firefighter 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 fire engine. 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_firefighter:. People also look for it with words like โfireโ, โfirefighterโ, โfiretruckโ, or โmanโ.
Made of
๐จ+๐=๐จโ๐
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
- 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2020
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