Old man

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Shortcode
:older_man:
Shortcode
:old_man:
Unicode
U+1F474
HTML
👴
CSS
\1F474
JavaScript
"\u{1F474}"
URL
%F0%9F%91%B4

adultbaldelderlygrampsgrandfathergrandpamanoldwise

What ๐Ÿ‘ด means

An older man with white hair. ๐Ÿ‘ด stands for a grandfather, a senior man, or old age.

Grandpa gets it in birthday posts and family photos. It also covers jokes about feeling old or acting like a grumpy old man, as in "get off my lawn ๐Ÿ‘ด."

Facts

Old man ๐Ÿ‘ด is an emoji in the people and body category, under person. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :older_man: or :old_man:. People also look for it with words like โ€œadultโ€, โ€œbaldโ€, โ€œelderlyโ€, or โ€œgrampsโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
  2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. old man, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. old man, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. old man, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. old man, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. old man, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Unicode 6.0