Teacher: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin tone standing in front of a chalkboard or whiteboard. The character typically wears glasses and holds a pointer, capturing the classic image of an educator at the front of a classroom.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss school, university lectures, or academic topics. It is a go-to for highlighting a learning moment, sharing advice, or referring to a mentor. It is often used alongside emojis like 🎓 to mark graduation or 📚 when talking about studying.

History

The base teacher emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the push to diversify professional roles in digital communication. The ability to modify the skin tone was added shortly after as part of the broader effort to make human emojis more inclusive for global users.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍🏫

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F3EB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f3eb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83C;&#xDFEB;

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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