Pilot Emoji

People

A person wearing a traditional pilot's uniform, featuring a peaked hat with a gold emblem. The design focuses on the professional attire associated with operating commercial or private aircraft.

Usage Context

Used to discuss air travel, careers in aviation, or to announce that someone is taking charge of a situation. It is frequently sent when someone is heading to the airport or beginning a vacation, often appearing alongside ✈️ or 🛫.

History

The pilot emoji was added to the Unicode standard to represent the aviation industry within the growing set of professional character roles. It gained further versatility when gender-neutral and skin-tone variations were introduced to reflect the diverse reality of modern cockpit crews.

Details

Glyph

🧑‍✈

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+200D U+2708

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_200d_2708:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;‍✈

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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