Person: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A gender-neutral human figure depicted with a medium brown skin tone. The character features a simplified face and neutral expression, designed to represent an adult person without specifying gender or professional role.
Usage Context
This emoji acts as a base character for digital communication, allowing users to refer to people in a general sense. It is frequently used in place of gendered icons like man or woman when the subject's identity is unknown, irrelevant, or non-binary. Users often combine it with modifiers to signify specific activities or identities.
History
The person emoji was introduced as part of the effort to make Unicode more inclusive. The ability to modify skin tones was added in 2015 based on the Fitzpatrick scale, a dermatological standard, to ensure digital representations better reflect the diversity of the global population.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏽
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd:
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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