Older person: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of an elderly person with short, white, thinning hair and a medium skin tone. The face is depicted with realistic aging lines, suggesting maturity and years of lived experience.

Usage Context

Used to represent grandparents, seniors, or aging in general. It frequently appears in discussions about family, elderly care, or when seeking wisdom from an older generation. It is often grouped with other family-related icons like 👴 or 👵 to illustrate multigenerational dynamics.

History

This emoji was added as part of Emoji 5.0 in 2017 to expand the representation of age and physical diversity in digital communication. The addition of skin tone modifiers allowed users to better reflect the diverse global population of older adults across different cultures.

Details

Glyph

🧓🏽

Unicode

U+1F9D3 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d3_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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