Teacher: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person standing in front of a whiteboard with a pointer, wearing glasses and professional attire. This variation features a medium-light skin tone to represent a wider range of human diversity in the workplace.

Usage Context

Used to denote academic settings, tutoring sessions, or providing guidance and instruction. It is the go-to emoji for students discussing classes or professionals sharing expertise, often paired with the 📖 or 🎓 emojis to complete the classroom scene.

History

The teacher emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 to expand upon the existing profession-based characters. The ability to apply skin tone modifiers was introduced in earlier versions of the standard to ensure emoji represent diverse populations, eventually being applied to the broader set of occupational emojis.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🏫

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F3EB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f3eb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#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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