Detective: light skin tone Emoji

People

A silhouette of a person wearing a classic brimmed fedora and a trench coat, shown in a light skin tone. The character is often depicted with a magnifying glass or peering over the hat's brim, signaling investigation or curiosity.

Usage Context

Used to suggest that someone is looking into a matter, uncovering a secret, or acting as a private investigator. It frequently pops up in group chats when someone is playing online games like Among Us, or when a user is jokingly admitting to 'stalking' someone's social media profile alongside the 👀 emoji.

History

The base detective character arrived in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, while the skin tone modifiers were introduced later in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 to allow for a broader representation of the profession across different cultures.

Details

Glyph

🕵🏻

Unicode

U+1F575 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f575_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD75;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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