Astronaut Emoji

People

A person wearing a pressurized space suit and a reflective gold-tinted helmet visor. This emoji highlights the profession of space exploration and the gear required to survive in vacuum environments.

Usage Context

Used to discuss space travel, science fiction, or someone working on a major project. It is frequently sent alongside 🚀 when cheering for a launch or 🌕 when talking about lunar missions. People also use it to signify feeling spaced out or 'in orbit' during a busy day.

History

Added in 2016 as part of the Emoji 4.0 update, the astronaut was introduced to broaden the range of professional character representations. It arrived as platforms began pushing for more diverse and career-focused icons to replace the previously limited selection of human figures.

Details

Glyph

🧑‍🚀

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F680

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_200d_1f680:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;‍&#xD83D;&#xDE80;

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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