Astronaut: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a white pressurized space suit with a clear visor, shown with a medium skin tone. The figure is posed as if floating or working in a zero-gravity environment.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss space exploration, science fiction, or the act of 'launching' a new project. It is often paired with the 🚀 rocket or the ✨ sparkles emoji to convey excitement about high-flying ambitions or distant travel.

History

While the base astronaut emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016, the ability to apply modifiers like skin tones was enabled shortly after to better reflect the diverse workforce of international space agencies like NASA and ESA.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🚀

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F680

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f680:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83D;&#xDE80;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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