Person wearing turban: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A character shown from the chest up wearing a wrapped turban on their head, depicted with a medium-light skin tone. This icon represents a person wearing traditional headwear common in various cultures across South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent individuals who wear turbans as part of their religious practice, cultural identity, or daily attire. It is often used alongside emojis like 📿 or 🕌 to signal themes related to culture, faith, or specific regional demographics.

History

First introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the turban-wearing person was part of a major expansion to make emoji sets more inclusive of diverse cultural dress. Modifier support for skin tones was added in 2015 to allow users to better reflect the diverse reality of people around the world.

Details

Glyph

👳🏼

Unicode

U+1F473 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f473_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC73;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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