Man Tipping Hand 💁‍♂️

The male version of the tipping-hand gesture shows a man with hand raised to his head in that same casual, dismissive pose. He's typically depicted with short hair and masculine features, maintaining the same sassy, unbothered energy of the original.

This variant is used identically to its gender-neutral counterpart—for sarcasm, sass, and dramatic attitude. Men and non-binary users often choose the gendered version to match their own identity or simply for visual preference. The meaning remains the same across all contexts: knowing superiority, eye-rolling reactions, or playful mockery.

On platforms that support gender variants, users can pick whichever version feels right to them. The gesture itself transcends gender stereotypes in modern usage, though it did originate from stereotypically feminine expressions of attitude and dismissal.

Introduced as part of Unicode Emoji 4 in 2016, this gendered variant expanded the emoji toolkit to allow more personalized self-expression in digital communication.