Person: white hair: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A gender-neutral figure with medium-dark skin and a full head of white hair. The design captures a realistic, aging appearance, focusing on the contrast between the person's complexion and their grey or white locks.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to discuss aging, family members like grandparents, or simply to represent a person with grey hair. It provides a way to show identity and diversity in digital conversations. Users often combine it with family-related emojis like 👩👩👧 or 👨👩👦 to build specific character profiles.
History
This variation was introduced as part of the Emoji 12.1 update in 2019, which focused on expanding skin tone and gender-neutral options. It relies on the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines the base 🧑 emoji with white hair and skin tone modifiers to create a single display character on modern operating systems.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏾🦳
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F9B3
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f9b3:
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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