Person: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral human figure featuring a medium-dark skin tone. It shows a person from the shoulders up, designed to be a generic representation of an individual regardless of specific gender identity.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to refer to any person, human being, or individual in a neutral way. It acts as a baseline for people-related communication, frequently used alongside specific modifiers or paired with expressive icons like 👋 or 😊 to represent a personal experience.

History

This character was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 as part of a major push to make the emoji library more inclusive. By adding the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers to the gender-neutral person base, developers ensured that users could represent a wider spectrum of global skin tones in everyday digital conversations.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person

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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