Factory worker: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a yellow hard hat and protective goggles, depicted with medium skin tone. The figure represents someone employed in manual labor, manufacturing, or heavy industry.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional roles, trade work, or industrial environments. It is frequently sent when talking about factory production, construction projects, or labor shifts. It is often grouped with related job emojis like 👨‍🔧 or 👷 to signal specific technical or manual trades.

History

The base character was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 as part of a push to diversify the professional emoji set. The option to modify the skin tone was added later to better reflect the global diversity of the industrial workforce, moving away from the default yellow-only representation used in early platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🏭

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F3ED

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f3ed:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83C;&#xDFED;

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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