Man elf
Emoji 5.0 ยท People & Body ยท :elf_man:
Also known as: elf, elves, enchantment, fantasy, folklore, magic, magical, man, myth
How it looks elsewhere
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What Man elf Means
People reach for ๐งโโ๏ธ when they mean elf, elves, enchantment, fantasy, folklore and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Man elf is one of the people & body emoji, alongside ๐ผ ๐ ๐คถ ๐งโ๐ ๐ฆธ and 25 more in the same family. It supports all five skin tone modifiers, so ๐งโโ๏ธ can be sent as ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ ๐ง๐ฝโโ๏ธ ๐ง๐พโโ๏ธ ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ. It also has person, man and woman variants that you can pick from the emojiโs details on Snagmoji.
History & Platforms
Man elf was added in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐งโโ๏ธ is the 4-code-point sequence U+1F9DD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :elf_man:.
How To Use ๐งโโ๏ธ
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ผ๐ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :elf_man: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.