Astronaut: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin wearing a white pressurized space suit and a clear, reflective helmet. The figure is depicted in a floating position, suggesting the weightlessness of outer space.

Usage Context

Used to represent space travel, science, exploration, or a career in the aerospace industry. It is frequently sent alongside the 🚀 rocket or 🌌 milky way to indicate excitement about space missions or sci-fi media.

History

The base astronaut emoji was added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. In 2017, with the release of Emoji 5.0, modifier sequences were introduced, allowing the representation of diverse skin tones for people in specific roles to better reflect the global nature of space exploration programs.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍🚀

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F680

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f680:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#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

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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