Person: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A gender-neutral adult figure depicted with a dark skin tone. This emoji is designed to represent a human being without specifying a particular gender, focusing instead on inclusivity through the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to represent oneself or another person in text-based communication. Because it lacks specific hair or clothing, it serves as a generic placeholder. It is frequently used alongside other modifiers like 🧑🏻 or 🧑🏼 to provide a more diverse range of representation in group chats and social media threads.
History
The Unicode Consortium introduced skin tone modifiers in 2015 as part of Emoji 1.0 to address the lack of human diversity in digital messaging. The specific gender-neutral adult character was added later in 2017 to provide a baseline identity that does not rely on traditional male or female character designs.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏿
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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