Older person: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of an elderly person featuring white hair, soft facial lines, and a neutral, kindly expression. This specific version displays a medium-light skin tone.

Usage Context

Used to represent grandparents, elderly relatives, or the concept of aging and maturity. It is frequently employed alongside family-oriented icons like 👪 or 👵 to illustrate multigenerational dynamics in text conversations.

History

While the base character for the elderly person was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, the expansion of skin tone modifiers was part of a larger push by the Unicode Consortium to make digital representation more inclusive of the actual global population.

Details

Glyph

🧓🏼

Unicode

U+1F9D3 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d3_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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