Detective: light skin tone Emoji
People
A silhouette of a person wearing a classic brimmed fedora and a trench coat, shown in a light skin tone. The character is often depicted with a magnifying glass or peering over the hat's brim, signaling investigation or curiosity.
Usage Context
Used to suggest that someone is looking into a matter, uncovering a secret, or acting as a private investigator. It frequently pops up in group chats when someone is playing online games like Among Us, or when a user is jokingly admitting to 'stalking' someone's social media profile alongside the 👀 emoji.
History
The base detective character arrived in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, while the skin tone modifiers were introduced later in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 to allow for a broader representation of the profession across different cultures.
Details
Glyph
🕵🏻
Unicode
U+1F575 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f575_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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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
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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