Elf: light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure representing a fantasy elf featuring light skin, pointed ears, and long, flowing hair. This character follows the classic trope of forest-dwelling, mythical humanoids found in literature and role-playing games.

Usage Context

Widely used to discuss fantasy media, tabletop gaming, or to playfully claim an 'elf-like' appearance. It is frequently sent alongside the 🧚 fairy or 🧙 mage to flesh out a magical party or theme.

History

While the base elf emoji was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, the skin tone modifier support was introduced shortly after to align with the expanded human emoji representation standards, ensuring users could customize fantasy characters to better reflect themselves or specific role-playing archetypes.

Details

Glyph

🧝🏻

Unicode

U+1F9DD U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9dd_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDDD;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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