Meaning
This emoji depicts a male police officer in full law enforcement uniform, complete with cap, badge, and the formal attire associated with police departments. The design captures the professional and authoritative appearance of the police profession, with details that make the officer's role immediately apparent to viewers.
Used in contexts where someone is specifically referring to male police officers or simply wants gender representation in conversations about law enforcement. People send this when discussing police careers, community safety initiatives, or police-related news stories. Like the generic police officer emoji, it appears in joking contexts about rules and authority, as well as in more serious discussions about policing practices and public safety.
The emoji works particularly well in conversations highlighting men in the police force, during awareness campaigns, or in narratives about specific male officers or departments. It's also useful for gender-inclusive discussions that aim to represent all officers equally.
Design variations exist across platforms, with some versions showing more realistic uniform details and others using more stylized representations. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode Emoji 4 in 2016, providing the gendered profession variant options that users often prefer for specificity.
Common Uses
- • Discussing male police officers and law enforcement
- • Referencing police work and community safety
- • Joking about rules, authority, or 'getting caught'
- • Supporting or thanking police officers
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
The gendered variants of profession emoji like this one only became available in 2016, allowing for more specific and inclusive representation in digital conversations.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:policeman: :male-police-officer: :policeman: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 👮‍♂️ |
| HTML (hex) | 👮‍♂️ |
| CSS | \1F46E\200D\2642\FE0F |
| JavaScript | \uD83D\uDC6E\u200D\u2642\uFE0F |
| Python | \U0001F46E\U0000200D\U00002642\U0000FE0F |
| Java | \uD83D\uDC6E\u200D\u2642\uFE0F |
| Perl | \x{1F46E}\x{200D}\x{2642}\x{FE0F} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F46E}\x{200D}\x{2642}\x{FE0F} |
| Punycode | xn--2qum-6bx-7k2-1e6n |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%91%AE%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xAE 0xE2 0x80 0x8D 0xE2 0x99 0x82 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
👮♂️ in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | ছেলে , পুরুষ পুলিশ অফিসার |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 男警察 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 男警 |
| Danish | mandlig politibetjent |
| Dutch | politieman |
| English | man police officer |
| English (UK) | man police officer |
| Estonian | meespolitseinik |
| Finnish | miespoliisi |
| French | policier |
| German | Polizist |
| Hindi | पुरुष पुलिस अधिकारी |
| Hungarian | rendőr |
| Italian | poliziotto |
| Japanese | 男性警察官 |
| Korean | 남자 경찰관 |
| Lithuanian | vyras policininkas |
| Malay | pegawai polis lelaki |
| Norwegian | mannlig politibetjent |
| Polish | mężczyzna policjant |
| Portuguese | policial homem |
| Russian | мужчина-полицейский |
| Spanish | agente de policía hombre |
| Spanish (Mexico) | agente de policía hombre |
| Swedish | manlig polis |
| Thai | ตำรวจชาย |
| Ukrainian | поліцейський |
| Vietnamese | cảnh sát nam |