Artist Emoji

People

A person holding a wooden paint palette in one hand and a paintbrush in the other, typically shown wearing a beret. The figure represents someone engaged in the process of creating visual art.

Usage Context

Used to denote creative hobbies, professional artistic work, or general appreciation for visual media. It frequently appears in captions for finished projects or when discussing craft-related activities. Users often pair it with 🎨 or 🖌️ to signal a creative session is underway.

History

The artist emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0. It was created to provide a more inclusive representation of professionals in creative fields, expanding beyond the traditional generic character icons used in earlier messaging systems.

Details

Glyph

🧑‍🎨

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F3A8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_200d_1f3a8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;‍&#xD83C;&#xDFA8;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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