Firefighter: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a protective yellow or red fire helmet, featuring light skin and a focused expression. This emoji represents professional emergency responders who combat structural and wildfires.

Usage Context

Used to denote emergency services, bravery, or the firefighting profession. It is frequently sent during emergencies, or to express gratitude toward first responders. It is often paired with the 🔥 for fire-related incidents or the 🚒 for the vehicle used to reach the scene.

History

Firefighter emojis were added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a push to increase gender and professional diversity across the platform. The skin tone modifiers, introduced in Unicode 8.0, were applied here to ensure that the representation of these public service roles reflected a global workforce.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🚒

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F692

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1f692:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83D;&#xDE92;

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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