Detective Emoji
People
A person wearing a classic fedora hat and a trench coat, often portrayed with a magnifying glass held up to their face. This figure draws directly from the mid-20th-century archetypal image of a hard-boiled private investigator or a film noir sleuth.
Usage Context
Use this to imply that you are investigating a situation, digging for information, or lurking on someone's social media profile. It is the go-to choice for 'stalking' behavior or showing that you have successfully uncovered a hidden truth, especially when paired with 🔍.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2014, the detective emoji was born from the need to visualize investigative work in text chats. Its design leans heavily on the visual shorthand popularized by classic crime novels and detective films from the 1940s and 50s.
Details
Glyph
🕵
Unicode
U+1F575
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f575:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-role
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
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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