Person: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A gender-neutral adult figure depicted with a dark skin tone. This emoji is designed to represent a human being without specifying a particular gender, focusing instead on inclusivity through the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to represent oneself or another person in text-based communication. Because it lacks specific hair or clothing, it serves as a generic placeholder. It is frequently used alongside other modifiers like 🧑🏻 or 🧑🏼 to provide a more diverse range of representation in group chats and social media threads.
History
The Unicode Consortium introduced skin tone modifiers in 2015 as part of Emoji 1.0 to address the lack of human diversity in digital messaging. The specific gender-neutral adult character was added later in 2017 to provide a baseline identity that does not rely on traditional male or female character designs.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏿
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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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
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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