Detective emoji 🕵️
Emoji 0.7 (2014) · U+1F575 U+FE0F
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🕵️ means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🕵️ are sleuth, spy. They show what people use it for.
Search for sleuth or spy on your emoji keyboard and 🕵️ is among the results.
You will find 🕵️ among the jobs and roles (82 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🕵️♂️ 🕵️♀️ 💂 💂♂️.
Besides the default yellow, 🕵️ has 5 skin tones, from 🕵🏻 light to 🕵🏿 dark. Each one is a separate emoji you can copy above.
Will 🕵️ show on my friend's phone?
One of the first emoji ever: 🕵️ is part of Emoji 0.7 from 2014, the set that started on Japanese phones. It shows everywhere.
How to type 🕵️
Search for detective in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🕵️.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type detective.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type detective in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type detective.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🕵️ is 2 code points (U+1F575 U+FE0F), 7 bytes in UTF-8 and 3 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F575 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🕵️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🕵️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F575 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F575}\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%95%B5%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 95 B5 EF B8 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🕵️ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the detective emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🕵️ "detective" and links it with sleuth, spy. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the jobs and roles subgroup of people & body.
When was the detective emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.7 from 2014, so it works on any phone.
Can I change the skin tone of 🕵️?
Yes. 🕵️ has these skin tones: 🕵🏻 🕵🏼 🕵🏽 🕵🏾 🕵🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.