Person: white hair: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A dark-skinned person with short, white hair, representing a mature adult. The design focuses on a gender-neutral appearance, distinct from older figures like old woman or old man, highlighting hair color rather than advanced age.
Usage Context
Used to describe someone with grey or white hair, or to signify maturity and wisdom. It is frequently swapped into conversations about aging or changing hair color, and often grouped with other skin-tone variants to represent diverse groups of people.
History
This emoji was made possible by the introduction of ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences in Unicode 11.0 in 2018. This allowed for the combination of base characters—in this case, a person and a white hair modifier—to create specific character profiles that weren't previously available in early mobile messaging.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏿🦳
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F9B3
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff_200d_1f9b3:
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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