U+1F574 Man In Business Suit Levitating
U+1F574 was added in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as jump.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F574 prohibits a line break after it, if it’s followed by an emoji modifier.
The CLDR project calls this character “person in suit levitating” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: business, levitating, person, suit.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: 🕴️ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
This character made it into Unicode thanks to its existence in the Webdings typeface. The font has a large distribution, which made all its characters relevant for inclusion in Unicode. Andrew West offers a good roundup of this story:
[…] So if you still want to know why Unicode 7.0 will include a character for MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING you had better ask Vincent Connare et al. why they included the glyph in Webdings in 1997 in the first place. […]
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Man in Business Suit Levitating (🕴️) is an emoji depicting a man wearing a suit and fedora while levitating. Initially created as part of Webdings, the icon was made an emoji by the Unicode Consortium in 2014. The appearance of Man in Business Suit Levitating was originally based on the logo of 2 Tone Records; the logo was itself a depiction of reggae musician Peter Tosh.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 128372 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 95 B4 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DD 74 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F5 74 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%95%B4 |
| HTML hex reference | 🕴 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🕴 |
| alias | jump |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 94 39 EE 36 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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