Person wearing turban: light skin tone Emoji

People

An emoji showing a person with light skin wearing a traditional wrapped turban headpiece. The design focuses on the head and shoulders, clearly displaying the fabric folds of the headwear.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent cultural identity, religious expression, or fashion choices involving headwear. It is often used alongside other identity-focused emojis like person with headscarf or man in tuxedo to represent diverse social roles or celebrations.

History

The base turban emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The modifier for light skin tone was introduced in 2015 as part of the expansion of the Fitzpatrick scale, allowing users to select specific skin tone variations to better reflect individual identity across digital platforms.

Details

Glyph

👳🏻

Unicode

U+1F473 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f473_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC73;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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