Person Emoji
People
A gender-neutral representation of an adult human. The character features a plain, neutral face with no specific gender markers, designed to serve as a baseline human figure.
Usage Context
Used to discuss individuals in a general sense without specifying gender. It is frequently employed when the gender of a subject is unknown, irrelevant to the conversation, or when the user prefers to remain gender-neutral. It acts as a bridge between the specific man or woman emojis and functions as a standalone icon for humans in general.
History
This emoji was added in 2017 as part of Unicode 10.0. Its introduction was a major step in diversifying the emoji library, allowing for a neutral option that bypassed the traditional binary male and female archetypes that dominated earlier sets.
Details
Glyph
🧑
Unicode
U+1F9D1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1:
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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