Person wearing turban: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin wearing a traditional turban that wraps around the head. The design is intended to be gender-neutral and features a simple, bold silhouette typical of modern emoji sets.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent Sikh culture, Middle Eastern or South Asian identities, or generally to denote a person wearing headwear. It is frequently sent alongside other cultural symbols like 📿 or 🇮🇳 to indicate specific heritage, religious observance, or personal style.

History

The base person wearing turban emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The skin tone modifiers were introduced in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update, which aimed to bring greater diversity to the platform by allowing users to select from the Fitzpatrick scale for human-based emojis.

Details

Glyph

👳🏾

Unicode

U+1F473 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f473_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC73;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

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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