Firefighter: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a protective yellow or red fire helmet, representing a professional firefighter. This version features a medium skin tone, one of the diverse options added to ensure the emoji accurately reflects the global workforce.

Usage Context

Used to discuss emergency services, fire safety, or to praise someone who has done a brave deed. It is frequently sent alongside the 🔥 emoji to indicate a fire emergency or the 🚒 emoji to depict a fire engine arrival.

History

The firefighter emoji was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the push for gender-neutral professional roles. The ability to modify skin tones was implemented later to align with the expansion of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee’s goal of making digital communication more inclusive and representative of real-world populations.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🚒

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F692

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f692:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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