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About Old Man

Old Man is the Unicode character 👴 at codepoint U+1F474 in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Old Man

To use the Old Man symbol (👴) in HTML, insert the entity 👴 directly into your markup. The decimal entity 👴 works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1F474';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1F474}' evaluates to 👴. In Python source, write '\U0001F474'.

The character encodes to F0 9F 91 B4 as UTF-8 bytes and D83D DC74 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 128116.

This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.

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