Guard emoji
Type :guard: · People & body
Unicode name Guard · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 💂 means
A palace guard in a bearskin hat. Britain in one character, and standing very still.
How to type 💂 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :guar
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 💂 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:guard: Search terms
Also found by searching buckingham, helmet, london, palace.
Skin tones for 💂
Guard comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 💂 in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 💂🏻 light 💂🏼 medium-light 💂🏽 medium 💂🏾 medium-dark 💂🏿 dark 💂 in HTML, CSS and code
Guard is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F482
- HTML
- 💂
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F482}'
- CSS content
- "\1F482"
- Python
- '\U0001F482'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%92%82
Related emojis
:man_guard: 💂♀️ :woman_guard: 👋 :wave: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: ✋️ :high_five: 🖖 :vulcan: 🫱 :rightwards_hand: 🫴 :palm_up: 👌 :ok_hand: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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