Factory worker: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a yellow hard hat and protective goggles, depicted with medium skin tone. The figure represents someone employed in manual labor, manufacturing, or heavy industry.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional roles, trade work, or industrial environments. It is frequently sent when talking about factory production, construction projects, or labor shifts. It is often grouped with related job emojis like 👨‍🔧 or 👷 to signal specific technical or manual trades.

History

The base character was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 as part of a push to diversify the professional emoji set. The option to modify the skin tone was added later to better reflect the global diversity of the industrial workforce, moving away from the default yellow-only representation used in early platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🏭

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F3ED

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f3ed:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83C;&#xDFED;

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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