Technologist: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium-light skin tone sitting behind a computer screen, focused on their work. The character is depicted wearing a headset or glasses in some versions, clearly engaged in coding or digital tasks.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent software engineers, IT support staff, or anyone deep into a project on their laptop. People often use it when discussing late-night crunch sessions, troubleshooting technical issues, or sharing tech-industry memes. It is frequently seen alongside icons like ⌨️ or 💻.

History

The base technologist emoji was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to modernize how digital professionals are represented in chat. The skin tone variations were introduced to allow users to better identify with the archetype of the digital creator, reflecting the global expansion of the software development workforce.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍💻

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F4BB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f4bb:

HTML Entity

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

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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