Person: white hair: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral figure with medium-dark skin and a full head of white hair. The design captures a realistic, aging appearance, focusing on the contrast between the person's complexion and their grey or white locks.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss aging, family members like grandparents, or simply to represent a person with grey hair. It provides a way to show identity and diversity in digital conversations. Users often combine it with family-related emojis like 👩‍👩‍👧 or 👨‍👩‍👦 to build specific character profiles.

History

This variation was introduced as part of the Emoji 12.1 update in 2019, which focused on expanding skin tone and gender-neutral options. It relies on the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines the base 🧑 emoji with white hair and skin tone modifiers to create a single display character on modern operating systems.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍🦳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F9B3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f9b3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB3;

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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