Pilot: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A person with a dark skin tone wearing a white-collared shirt and a dark navy or black pilot’s cap featuring a gold emblem. The design is based on the professional uniform worn by commercial airline captains.
Usage Context
Used to discuss air travel, careers in aviation, or to represent someone currently on a flight. It is frequently sent by passengers checking in from an airport or by people working in the flight industry. It is often grouped with the airplane or departure emojis to provide situational clarity.
History
While the pilot emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, the ability to modify skin tones arrived as part of the ongoing effort by the Unicode Consortium to make digital representation more inclusive across diverse professional roles.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏿✈
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2708
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff_200d_2708:
HTML Entity
����‍✈
Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-role
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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