Mechanic: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-light skin wearing a blue cap and carrying a large silver wrench. The figure is dressed in standard work attire, signaling a role in skilled manual labor or repair services.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss home repairs, car maintenance, or DIY projects. It acts as a quick way to identify someone working in the trades, whether they are fixing a pipe or tuning up an engine. It is often used alongside tools like 🔧 or 🔨 to emphasize the completion of a job.

History

This character was added to the emoji set as part of the effort to diversify the workforce representations in Unicode. By allowing users to modify skin tones, the emoji system moved away from the default yellow figures to better represent real-world professionals across different cultures and backgrounds.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🔧

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F527

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f527:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83D;&#xDD27;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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