Person: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral human figure featuring a medium-dark skin tone. It shows a person from the shoulders up, designed to be a generic representation of an individual regardless of specific gender identity.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to refer to any person, human being, or individual in a neutral way. It acts as a baseline for people-related communication, frequently used alongside specific modifiers or paired with expressive icons like 👋 or 😊 to represent a personal experience.

History

This character was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 as part of a major push to make the emoji library more inclusive. By adding the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers to the gender-neutral person base, developers ensured that users could represent a wider spectrum of global skin tones in everyday digital conversations.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository