Student: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium skin tone wearing a dark academic mortarboard cap with a tassel. The head and shoulders are visible, representing someone actively engaged in higher education or marking the completion of an academic program.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to share personal milestones like graduation, passing a difficult exam, or starting a new semester. It is a go-to icon for students celebrating the end of a long study session or congratulating a friend, often paired with the 🎓 graduation cap or the 🎉 party popper.

History

The student emoji was added to the Unicode standard to provide a gender-neutral option for academic achievement. By utilizing the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, it allows for various skin tone modifiers, acknowledging the global diversity of the modern student body compared to early, rigid character designs.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🎓

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F393

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f393:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83C;&#xDF93;

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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