Office worker: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person depicted wearing a business suit and a necktie, shown from the chest up. This specific version features a medium skin tone, representing a professional individual in a corporate environment.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional life, job-related tasks, or workplace culture. It is frequently sent when talking about meetings, deadlines, or career milestones. It often appears in threads alongside the 💼 briefcase or 🏢 office building to provide clarity on the setting.

History

This character was added to the Unicode standard to provide gender-neutral representations of professions. It evolved from early text-based emoticons like :-| that were used to suggest a serious or business-like demeanor in emails before graphical icons became the standard.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍💼

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F4BC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f4bc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83D;&#xDCBC;

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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