Person: white hair: light skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of an adult with a neutral expression, short white hair, and light skin. It depicts a person who has grayed hair, often signaling maturity or age.

Usage Context

Used to describe someone with white or silver hair, or to represent an older adult in a conversation. It is a gender-neutral alternative to gendered portraits and is often used alongside 👴 or 👵 to discuss aging, wisdom, or personal appearance.

History

This emoji was added in 2018 as part of the Emoji 11.0 update. It was developed to expand the inclusivity of the emoji keyboard by allowing users to select specific hair colors and skin tones for the base human figures, moving beyond the default yellow characters introduced in earlier versions.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🦳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F9B3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1f9b3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#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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