Student: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-light skin wearing a dark blue mortarboard cap with a tassel. The character’s face is neutral, clearly indicating someone who has reached an academic milestone.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for celebrating graduations, finishing a degree, or marking the end of a long academic program. It is frequently sent alongside celebratory icons like 🎓 or 🎉 to mark the transition from student to alumni status.

History

While the base character was part of earlier sets, the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences allowing for diverse skin tones were introduced in 2016 to better represent the global student population across different educational systems.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🎓

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F393

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f393:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#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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