Person: white hair: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A gender-neutral figure with medium-dark skin and a full head of white hair. The design captures a realistic, aging appearance, focusing on the contrast between the person's complexion and their grey or white locks.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to discuss aging, family members like grandparents, or simply to represent a person with grey hair. It provides a way to show identity and diversity in digital conversations. Users often combine it with family-related emojis like 👩👩👧 or 👨👩👦 to build specific character profiles.
History
This variation was introduced as part of the Emoji 12.1 update in 2019, which focused on expanding skin tone and gender-neutral options. It relies on the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines the base 🧑 emoji with white hair and skin tone modifiers to create a single display character on modern operating systems.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏾🦳
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F9B3
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_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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