Person: light skin tone Emoji
People
A gender-neutral figure depicted with a light skin tone. The character features a simple, stylized face and neutral hair, intended to represent an adult person without specifying a particular gender.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to represent an individual in general conversation, especially when gender is unknown or irrelevant. It is part of a larger modifier system that allows users to customize the skin tone of human figures, often used alongside other variations like 🧑🏼, 🧑🏽, 🧑🏾, or 🧑🏿 to show diversity in a group or community.
History
While the base person emoji was added to Unicode in 2015, the ability to apply skin tone modifiers was introduced in Unicode 8.0 to move away from the default generic yellow. This update was a massive shift for digital communication, finally allowing users to better represent their own appearance in text-based apps.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏻
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb:
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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