Teacher: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with dark skin standing in front of a chalkboard or whiteboard, usually holding a pointer. This emoji depicts a professional educator leading a classroom or presenting information.

Usage Context

Used to discuss school life, academic subjects, or the act of explaining a concept. It is frequently sent when someone is sharing knowledge or correcting a misconception. It is often paired with emojis like 📚 or ✏️ to set a school-themed scene.

History

The teacher emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the effort to diversify professional roles in digital communication. The ability to modify the skin tone of existing people emojis was expanded later, allowing for more representative options in educational and workplace discussions.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏿‍🏫

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F3EB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff_200d_1f3eb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83C;&#xDFEB;

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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