Older person: light skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of an elderly person with short, white hair and a light skin tone. The face features subtle lines and a neutral expression, representing an individual in their later years.

Usage Context

Used to represent grandparents, elderly family members, or to speak generally about aging and senior citizens. It is often grouped with other family-oriented emojis like 👵 or 👴 to denote multigenerational households or to celebrate milestone birthdays.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 as part of a push to broaden the diversity of human representations in digital communication. It was developed to provide a gender-neutral option for the elderly, complementing the existing specific grandmother and grandfather characters.

Details

Glyph

🧓🏻

Unicode

U+1F9D3 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d3_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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