Student: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a traditional graduation cap, known as a mortarboard, with a light skin tone. The design captures the classic look of someone finishing an academic program, featuring the square top and a dangling tassel.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate academic achievements, share news about a diploma, or announce a return to school. It is the go-to choice for social media posts about commencements, exam results, or professional training. It works well alongside related educational icons like 🎓 or 📚.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of an effort to make character representations more diverse by applying modifier tones to existing base designs. The mortarboard itself has been a shorthand for higher education in digital iconography since the early days of graphical chat rooms and forum avatars.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🎓

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F393

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1f393:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83C;&#xDF93;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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