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👨🎨Man Artist Emoji
Tagged artist, man and palette, 👨🎨 man artist sits in Unicode's Roles & Careers group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 4.0 (2016) at U+1F468 U+200D U+1F3A8.
What 👨🎨 man artist means
Jobs and identities, and the largest subgroup in People & Body. Almost all of them are ZWJ sequences: 👨🍳 is literally a man plus a zero-width joiner plus 🍳. The professions arrived in 2016 as man and woman pairs, with gender-neutral versions following in 2019. Used for introductions, career news and dressing-up jokes.
Unicode tags this one artist, man and palette and files it under People & Body → Roles & Careers.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 👨🎨 is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
- 👨U+1F468man
- ·U+200DZero-width joiner
- 🎨U+1F3A8artist palette
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F468 U+200D U+1F3A8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👨‍🎨 | |
| HTML decimal | 👨‍🎨 | |
| CSS | \1F468\200D\1F3A8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F3A8} | |
| Python | \U0001F468\U0000200D\U0001F3A8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC68\u200D\uD83C\uDFA8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f468}\u{200d}\u{1f3a8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F3A8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F3A8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8E%A8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 A8 E2 80 8D F0 9F 8E A8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC68 200D D83C DFA8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+RqOKAjfCfjqg= | |
| Decimal | 128104 8205 127912 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 4.0 (2016) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 👨🎨 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 👨🎨
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “man artist”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “artist”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f468and Enter. - HTML — paste
👨‍🎨.
How 👨🎨 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 👨🎨Apple
- 👨🎨Segoe
- 👨🎨Noto
- 👨🎨System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 👨🎨 man artist emoji mean?+
👨🎨 is the man artist emoji, tagged artist, man and palette. Jobs and identities, and the largest subgroup in People & Body. Almost all of them are ZWJ sequences: 👨🍳 is literally a man plus a zero-width joiner plus 🍳. The professions arrived in 2016 as man and woman pairs, with gender-neutral versions following in 2019. Used for introductions, career news and dressing-up jokes.
What is the Unicode code for 👨🎨?+
man artist is U+1F468 U+200D U+1F3A8. In HTML that is 👨‍🎨, in CSS \1F468\200D\1F3A8, and in JavaScript \u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F3A8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👨🎨 emoji added?+
man artist got its emoji presentation in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Roles & Careers in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 4.0 (2016)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👨🎨 man artist.