Person: red hair: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral figure featuring shoulder-length red hair and a medium-light skin tone. The design provides a clear representation of natural ginger hair combined with specific skin complexion modifiers to reflect human diversity.

Usage Context

Used to identify individuals with red hair in casual conversation, social media profiles, or when describing someone’s appearance. It is often used alongside related hair-color variants like person: blond hair or person: curly hair to add specific detail to a message.

History

Red hair was added as a standalone emoji option in 2018 as part of the Emoji 11.0 update. It was developed in response to long-standing user requests for more inclusive hair color representation, bridging a gap in the existing emoji library that previously lacked natural redheads.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🦰

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9B0

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f9b0:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB0;

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.

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