Detective Emoji

People

A person wearing a classic fedora hat and a trench coat, often portrayed with a magnifying glass held up to their face. This figure draws directly from the mid-20th-century archetypal image of a hard-boiled private investigator or a film noir sleuth.

Usage Context

Use this to imply that you are investigating a situation, digging for information, or lurking on someone's social media profile. It is the go-to choice for 'stalking' behavior or showing that you have successfully uncovered a hidden truth, especially when paired with 🔍.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2014, the detective emoji was born from the need to visualize investigative work in text chats. Its design leans heavily on the visual shorthand popularized by classic crime novels and detective films from the 1940s and 50s.

Details

Glyph

🕵

Unicode

U+1F575

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f575:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD75;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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