Person: white hair: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral figure with shoulder-length white hair and a medium-light skin tone. The character features a neutral expression, representing an older adult or a person who has prematurely grayed hair.

Usage Context

Use this emoji when discussing aging, wisdom, or referring to someone with silver or white hair. It is frequently used in professional or social contexts to represent seniors, grandparents, or individuals in mentorship roles. It is often grouped with other age-inclusive icons like 🧓 or 👴 to build a more diverse narrative in digital conversations.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the Emoji 12.1 update in 2019, which brought ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences to major platforms. This allowed users to combine base human emojis with specific skin tone modifiers and hair traits, finally providing users with more accurate ways to represent the diversity of human appearance in messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🦳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9B3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f9b3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#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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