Older person: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A head-and-shoulders portrait of an older person with dark skin, visible wrinkles, and grey hair. It depicts a figure of advanced age, capturing the facial lines and characteristic maturity associated with senior citizens.

Usage Context

Used to represent grandparents, retired individuals, or anyone speaking from a place of experience. It is frequently sent in family group chats or alongside 👴🏿 and 👵🏿 to depict multi-generational gatherings or personal lineage.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to address the demand for more diverse representation within the aging population category. It arrived as part of a major expansion that brought various skin tone modifiers to the human emoji library, allowing users to better reflect real-world diversity.

Details

Glyph

🧓🏿

Unicode

U+1F9D3 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d3_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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