Older person: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of an elderly person with short, white hair and a medium-dark skin tone. The character features a neutral expression, representing a generic older individual without specifying a gender.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss aging, retirement, or to represent grandparents in family group chats. Users often combine it with 👵🏾 or 👴🏾 to provide more specific familial roles, or pair it with the 📖 emoji to convey a sense of wisdom and storytelling.

History

The gender-neutral elderly person was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of the effort to increase inclusivity across the emoji keyboard. Skin tone modifiers were introduced later to ensure that the diverse range of human appearances could be accurately reflected in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🧓🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D3 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d3_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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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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