Person: white hair: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A gender-neutral figure with shoulder-length white hair and a medium-light skin tone. The character features a neutral expression, representing an older adult or a person who has prematurely grayed hair.
Usage Context
Use this emoji when discussing aging, wisdom, or referring to someone with silver or white hair. It is frequently used in professional or social contexts to represent seniors, grandparents, or individuals in mentorship roles. It is often grouped with other age-inclusive icons like 🧓 or 👴 to build a more diverse narrative in digital conversations.
History
This emoji was introduced as part of the Emoji 12.1 update in 2019, which brought ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences to major platforms. This allowed users to combine base human emojis with specific skin tone modifiers and hair traits, finally providing users with more accurate ways to represent the diversity of human appearance in messaging apps.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏼🦳
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9B3
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_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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