How it works
The beard emoji is Person: beard, U+1F9D4, new in Emoji 5.0. Man: beard and Woman: beard followed in Emoji 13.1. Each of the three comes in five skin tones, which makes 18 beards.
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Four code points for the man and the woman
Man: beard is not one character. It is the bearded person, a zero width joiner, Male sign and a variation selector: U+1F9D4 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The bearded woman emoji swaps in Female sign, U+2640. UTS #51, Unicode’s emoji standard, says a system with no picture for a joined sequence shows the separate emoji: here a beard, then the sign.
One beard in all of Unicode
U+1F9D4 is the only character with BEARD in its Unicode name, and none is named for a moustache. CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files shave under two emoji, Razor and Barber pole, and comb under Hair pick alone.
- :-)} is a beard typed on a keyboard: colon eyes, a hyphen nose, a smile and one brace. Add braces to grow it.
- Santa Claus has no beard in its name or its search words. Emojipedia records that makers typically draw a big bushy one.
Questions and answers
Is there a woman with beard emoji?
Yes: Woman: beard, the bearded person joined to the female sign. CLDR files it under beard, bearded, whiskers and woman.
Which one is the beard man emoji?
Man: beard, the bearded person joined to the male sign. Before Emoji 13.1 there was a single beard emoji, the character Unicode names BEARDED PERSON. It is Person: beard here, the first tile.
Does the beard emoji have skin tones?
Yes, five for each of the three. In the man and the woman the tone sits straight after the beard and before the joiner, as in U+1F9D4 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F, which is five code points.