Person Emoji

People

A gender-neutral representation of an adult human. The character features a plain, neutral face with no specific gender markers, designed to serve as a baseline human figure.

Usage Context

Used to discuss individuals in a general sense without specifying gender. It is frequently employed when the gender of a subject is unknown, irrelevant to the conversation, or when the user prefers to remain gender-neutral. It acts as a bridge between the specific man or woman emojis and functions as a standalone icon for humans in general.

History

This emoji was added in 2017 as part of Unicode 10.0. Its introduction was a major step in diversifying the emoji library, allowing for a neutral option that bypassed the traditional binary male and female archetypes that dominated earlier sets.

Details

Glyph

🧑

Unicode

U+1F9D1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;

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

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository