Office worker: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A person wearing a suit jacket, a collared shirt, and a tie, featuring a medium-light skin tone. The character is portrayed with a professional appearance, typically representing someone working in a corporate or administrative environment.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to discuss workplace matters, professional meetings, or to describe someone heading to a corporate job. It is a popular choice for office humor, signaling that someone is busy or overwhelmed by tasks. It is often paired with emojis like 💻 to denote remote work or 🏢 to represent the office building itself.
History
The base character was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, reflecting a move toward more diverse and inclusive human representations in digital communication. The ability to modify skin tones for this emoji arrived later as part of the expansion of the Unicode standard to better represent global office culture.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏼💼
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F4BC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f4bc:
HTML Entity
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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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