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:man_technologist:U+1F468 U+200D U+1F4BB👨‍💻\1F468\200D\1F4BB"\u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F4BB}"%F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%92%BBA man at a laptop, used for male developers, engineers, IT staff and gamers at a desk.
It signals deep focus on code or a screen: โin the zone, don't call ๐จโ๐ปโ. People send it about the friend who fixes everyone's Wi-Fi, or as the hacker in a joke. Common with โ and ๐ for a late night of work.
Man technologist ๐จโ๐ป 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 ๐ป laptop. 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_technologist:. People also look for it with words like โcoderโ, โcomputerโ, โdeveloperโ, or โinventorโ.
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