What ๐โโ๏ธ means
A man in the red coat and bearskin hat of the British ceremonial guard.
It appears in London travel posts, royal events and photos of the Changing of the Guard. Friends use it for a man who stands guard over the snacks, the door, or a secret, and for anyone who can hold a poker face.
Facts
Man guard ๐โโ๏ธ 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 ๐ guard and โ๏ธ male sign. 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 :guardsman: or :man_guard:. People also look for it with words like โbuckinghamโ, โguardโ, โhelmetโ, or โlondonโ.
Made of
๐+โ๏ธ=๐โโ๏ธ
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