Health worker: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A person with medium-dark skin wearing a medical head mirror or stethoscope, representing a healthcare professional. This icon serves as a gender-neutral portrait for doctors, nurses, and clinical staff.
Usage Context
Used to denote medical appointments, health advice, or gratitude for frontline workers. It is frequently sent alongside the 🏥 hospital or 💉 syringe to clarify the nature of a conversation. By adding the skin tone modifier, it allows users to better reflect the diverse range of practitioners found in clinics and hospitals worldwide.
History
While the doctor emoji has existed since the early days of Unicode, the ability to modify skin tones was introduced in 2015 with Unicode 8.0, and gender-neutral base characters were standardized in 2017 to provide more inclusive options for professional representation.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏾⚕
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2695
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_2695:
HTML Entity
����‍⚕
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
Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.
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