Person: Beard Emoji Meaning
๐ง
Previously displayed with a gendered appearance, now shown as gender neutral on most platforms.
A person with a beard.
This emoji may be used to talk about bearded people in a gender-inclusive way. It was approved in 2017, initially intended to have a male presentation. Gendered variants of this emoji were approved three years later, leading to this emoji's design being made more neutral in appearance by all major vendors.
Variants include ๐งโ๏ธ Man with a Beard and ๐งโ๏ธ Woman with a Beard, both approved in 2020.
Person: Beard was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 under the name "Bearded Person" and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017.