Office worker: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person depicted wearing a business suit and a necktie, shown from the chest up. This specific version features a medium skin tone, representing a professional individual in a corporate environment.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional life, job-related tasks, or workplace culture. It is frequently sent when talking about meetings, deadlines, or career milestones. It often appears in threads alongside the 💼 briefcase or 🏢 office building to provide clarity on the setting.

History

This character was added to the Unicode standard to provide gender-neutral representations of professions. It evolved from early text-based emoticons like :-| that were used to suggest a serious or business-like demeanor in emails before graphical icons became the standard.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍💼

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F4BC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f4bc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83D;&#xDCBC;

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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