Person: red hair: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral figure with medium-dark skin and vibrant ginger hair. This character serves as a representative icon for people with red hair, regardless of gender identity.

Usage Context

Used to describe someone’s physical appearance or to identify a specific person in a chat. It is frequently sent alongside other hair-color variants like 🧑🏻‍🦰 or 🧑🏼‍🦰 when discussing family traits, hair care, or celebrity sightings.

History

Red hair was added to the emoji catalog in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0. Its inclusion followed significant public demand for more inclusive hair color options, as users pushed for emojis that better reflected the genetic diversity of the global population beyond the standard black, brown, and blonde presets.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍🦰

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F9B0

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f9b0:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB0;

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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