Judge: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium-light skin tone wearing a black judicial robe and a white collar. They are shown holding a wooden gavel, representing their role as a presiding authority in a courtroom.

Usage Context

Used to denote legal matters, court proceedings, or moments where someone is making a final ruling or decision. It is frequently sent during discussions about fairness or legal drama, often accompanied by the scales of justice ⚖️ or a gavel 🔨.

History

The judge emoji was first added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. The ability to modify the skin tone was introduced to ensure that digital representations of professional roles reflected a more diverse global population within workplace and social communication.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍⚖

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2696

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_2696:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍⚖

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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