Person: white hair Emoji

People

A gender-neutral figure with a simple face and a full head of white or silver hair. This emoji serves as a clear, straightforward way to represent an older adult without specifying gender.

Usage Context

Used to represent grandparents, elderly characters, or simply someone with premature grey hair. It is frequently paired with other family-related icons like 👵 or 👴 to build out depictions of family units or multi-generational groups in chat.

History

This emoji was added in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. It was part of a larger Unicode initiative to expand gender-neutral options across the entire human emoji catalog, ensuring that users had more inclusive ways to describe people beyond the traditional binary or fixed-age representations.

Details

Glyph

🧑‍🦳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_200d_1f9b3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB3;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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