Astronaut: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a white pressurized space suit with a gold-tinted helmet visor, featuring a lighter skin tone visible through the faceplate. The design highlights the professional gear worn by space travelers during extravehicular activities.

Usage Context

Used to discuss space travel, exploration, science, or to playfully suggest that someone has their head in the clouds. It is often paired with the 🚀 rocket or the 🌌 milky way to emphasize themes of discovery and the cosmos.

History

The base astronaut emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016. The ability to modify this character with specific skin tones was introduced shortly after to align with the expansion of the people category, ensuring broader representation in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🚀

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F680

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1f680:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83D;&#xDE80;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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