Pilot: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin wearing a white dress shirt, a black tie, and the distinct peaked cap worn by commercial airline pilots. The emoji depicts a professional aviator ready to operate an aircraft.

Usage Context

Used to represent travel, aviation, flight crews, or the career path of being a pilot. It is frequently sent by people heading to the airport or those working in the aerospace industry. It is often combined with the ✈️ airplane or 🛫 departure emojis to signify a journey.

History

The base pilot emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 4.0. The ability to modify this character with various skin tones was introduced to make the digital representation of professional roles more inclusive and reflective of the actual demographics of global airline staff.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍✈

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2708

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_2708:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍✈

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

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