Person: white hair: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral figure with medium skin tone and a full head of white hair. The design mimics the classic human avatar, emphasizing age-related graying of hair while maintaining a neutral character profile.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent seniors, grandparents, or simply individuals with naturally white or silver hair. It is often combined with other family-oriented icons like 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 or 👵 to help build out specific family trees or describe people in casual conversation.

History

This character was added to the Unicode standard as part of the push for more inclusive, customizable human representations. By combining base emoji components, users can now select skin tone modifiers and hair colors to better reflect a wider spectrum of the population, moving away from the limited options provided by earlier, monolithic emoji sets.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🦳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F9B3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f9b3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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