Judge: medium skin tone

Judge: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium skin tone wearing a black judicial robe, often accompanied by a small wooden gavel icon in many platform-specific designs. The figure represents someone presiding over a courtroom or overseeing legal proceedings.

Usage Context

Used to discuss legal matters, court rulings, or to sarcastically signal that you are judging someoneโ€™s questionable life choices. It is frequently paired with the โš–๏ธ scale of justice emoji to emphasize themes of fairness, law, or official verdicts.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the Emoji 11.0 update in 2018. It reflects the expansion of gender-neutral and skin-tone-inclusive characters, allowing users to represent professional roles without being forced to select a specific gender, mirroring the diversification of professional avatars in global messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph
๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿฝโ€โš–
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2696
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_2696:
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
Tags
justicelawscalesjudgemedium skin tonepeoplepersonrolecourtroomgavellegalverdictjudge

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