Guard Emoji

Guard emoji to copy and paste: the bearskin guard in five skin tones, typed sentries and palace combos.

Guard Emoji

💂GuardU+1F482Ready to copy

39 items. Tap one to copy it.

Filed under guard 4

Helmets and soldiers 3

Also on duty 5

Palace, crown and flag 4

Typed guards and towers 7

Guard lines 4

Guard combos 12

Next step Every person emoji, in Unicode’s orderFlags, the United Kingdom among them

How it works

The guard emoji is Guard, U+1F482, from Emoji 0.6, with Man guard and Woman guard from Emoji 4.0. Each comes in five skin tones, and CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files all three under buckingham, london and palace.

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British in all but the word

CLDR never says British, yet no other emoji is filed under london, buckingham or palace, so this is the British guard emoji. Emojipedia describes a British foot guard in a tall black bearskin hat and a red uniform. A bearskin, by Wikipedia, is a tall fur cap; CLDR’s word for it is helmet.

Caught off guard

One other emoji is filed under guard: Frowning face with open mouth, which also has caught. Wiktionary gives off guard as not vigilant, unprepared.

  • #:-| is a guard typed sideways: a hash for the bearskin, colon eyes, a nose and a mouth that does not move.
  • By Wikipedia, the King’s Guard is the sentry posting at Buckingham Palace and St James’s Palace, where a sentry is on duty for two hours.

Questions and answers

Which one is the guardsman emoji?

Guard, the first tile. GUARDSMAN is the character name Unicode gave U+1F482, and guard is its CLDR short name. Wiktionary defines a guardsman as someone, a soldier especially, who is on guard.

Is there a guard symbol in plain text?

No character is one. GUARDSMAN is this emoji, and the only other Unicode names with the word guard are Dagger with left guard and Dagger with right guard, two pronunciation marks. Black chess rook, a castle tower, is a plain text stand-in.

Is there a guard smiley emoticon?

No face emoji wears the hat, and no guard emoticon is standard. The typed ones here are this site’s own: [#:-|] stands in a sentry box and #:-) is off duty.

All 39 items

Filed under guard 4

  • Frowning face with open mouth U+1F626. The one other emoji with the word. Filed under guard and caught: caught off guard. Emoji 1.0.
  • Guard U+1F482. The guard emoji. Its Unicode character name is GUARDSMAN. Filed under buckingham, guard, helmet, london and palace. Emoji 0.6.
  • Man guard U+1F482 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The guard, a zero width joiner, Male sign and a variation selector: four code points. Emoji 4.0.
  • Woman guard U+1F482 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The guard, a zero width joiner, Female sign and a variation selector: four code points. Emoji 4.0.

Helmets and soldiers 3

  • Military helmet U+1FA96. Filed under helmet, soldier and army. Emoji 13.0.
  • Ninja U+1F977. Filed under soldier and stealth. Emoji 13.0.
  • Rescue worker’s helmet U+26D1 U+FE0F. Filed under helmet and rescue. Emoji 0.7.

Also on duty 5

  • Detective U+1F575 U+FE0F. Filed under sleuth and spy. Emoji 0.7.
  • Locked U+1F512. Filed under lock and private. Emoji 0.6.
  • Police officer U+1F46E. Filed under officer and police. Emoji 0.6.
  • Saluting face U+1FAE1. Filed under salute, sir and troops. Emoji 14.0.
  • Shield U+1F6E1 U+FE0F. Filed under shield. Emoji 0.7.
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Palace, crown and flag 4

  • Castle U+1F3F0. Filed under castle and European. Emoji 0.6.
  • Crown U+1F451. Filed under king, queen and royal. Emoji 0.6.
  • Flag: United Kingdom U+1F1EC U+1F1E7. Two regional indicator letters, G and B. Emoji 0.6.
  • Person with crown U+1FAC5. Filed under monarch and royal. Emoji 14.0.

Typed guards and towers 7

  • #:-) Off duty.
  • #:-| The guard, sideways: a hash for the bearskin and a mouth that does not move.
  • #:-| #:-| #:-| Three in a row.
  • #;-| One wink, strictly against orders.
  • [#:-|] In the sentry box: a square bracket on each side.
  • Black chess rook U+265C. A castle tower in plain text.
  • White chess rook U+2656. The same tower in outline.

Guard lines 4

  • caught me off guard Off guard, by Wiktionary: not vigilant, unprepared.
  • guard duty: the last slice For the pizza box.
  • on guard Vigilant, alert, by Wiktionary.
  • standing guard over the snacks For the kitchen.

Guard combos 12

  • All weathers Cloud with rain, then guard, then sun.
  • Band and bearskins Drum, then trumpet, then guard.
  • Biscuit tin security Guard, then cookie.
  • Changing of the guard Guard, then counterclockwise arrows button, then guard.
  • Guarding the crown Guard, then crown.
  • Night sentry Crescent moon, then guard.
  • Not moving Guard, then moai.
  • Off guard Frowning face with open mouth, then guard.
  • Palace gate Guard, then castle, then guard.
  • Postcard from London Flag: United Kingdom, then guard.
  • Tea after duty Guard, then teapot.
  • Trying not to laugh Guard, then face with tears of joy.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Character names (GUARDSMAN, the two daggers, the chess rooks) are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and the notes on the two daggers from the Unicode names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). How the guard is drawn is as Emojipedia describes it (https://emojipedia.org/guard), restated. The bearskin and the King’s Guard are as Wikipedia records them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearskin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Guard, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. Guardsman, on guard and off guard are as Wiktionary defines them (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guardsman, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_guard, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/off_guard, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. The typed faces, the lines and the combo names are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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