Person: light skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral figure depicted with a light skin tone. The character features a simple, stylized face and neutral hair, intended to represent an adult person without specifying a particular gender.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent an individual in general conversation, especially when gender is unknown or irrelevant. It is part of a larger modifier system that allows users to customize the skin tone of human figures, often used alongside other variations like 🧑🏼, 🧑🏽, 🧑🏾, or 🧑🏿 to show diversity in a group or community.

History

While the base person emoji was added to Unicode in 2015, the ability to apply skin tone modifiers was introduced in Unicode 8.0 to move away from the default generic yellow. This update was a massive shift for digital communication, finally allowing users to better represent their own appearance in text-based apps.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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