Man detective: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A man wearing a trench coat and a wide-brimmed fedora, often associated with private investigators. The figure appears deep in thought or mid-investigation, rendered with a medium-light skin tone.
Usage Context
Used to signal investigative work, searching for clues, or keeping a low profile. It is the go-to choice when someone is playing detective, uncovering a secret, or trying to solve a mystery in group chats, often paired with the 🔍 magnifying glass or 🕵️♀️ female counterpart to round out the search party.
History
This emoji evolved from the original generic detective icon found in early Unicode sets. It was expanded into the current gendered and skin-tone-diverse format in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 to better align with the increasingly granular representation standards of modern messaging platforms.
Details
Glyph
🕵🏼♂
Unicode
U+1F575 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f575_1f3fc_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
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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