Scientist: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-light skin wearing a white laboratory coat and protective goggles, often shown holding a glass flask. This figure represents someone working in a professional scientific field.

Usage Context

Used to discuss academic research, laboratory experiments, or careers in STEM. It is frequently sent when celebrating a breakthrough, highlighting a discovery, or referencing someone's job title. It acts as a gender-neutral alternative to the more specific 👨‍🔬 or 👩‍🔬 emojis.

History

The scientist emoji was first added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. As global interest in technology and research careers surged on social media platforms, the Unicode Consortium expanded the professional character set to ensure better representation for researchers across various scientific disciplines.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🔬

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F52C

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f52c:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83D;&#xDD2C;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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