What ๐จโโ๏ธ means
A man in a pilot's uniform and cap, used for male pilots, flight crew and aviation.
It fits posts about flight school, a first solo, or a dad who flies for a living. People also use it to take charge of a plan: โI'll steer this one ๐จโโ๏ธโ. With ๐ฌ it marks a safe landing or a finished project.
Facts
Man pilot ๐จโโ๏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 ๐จ man and โ๏ธ airplane. 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_pilot:. People also look for it with words like โmanโ, โpilotโ, or โplaneโ.
Made of
๐จ+โ๏ธ=๐จโโ๏ธ
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