Older person emoji 🧓
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F9D3
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧓 means
Older person 🧓 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: adult, elderly, grandparent, old, person, wise.
Those words also drive emoji search: try adult or elderly on your phone to find 🧓.
On the emoji keyboard, 🧓 sits with the people (28 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example 👴 👵 👶 🧒.
You can send 🧓 in 5 skin tones (🧓🏻 to 🧓🏿) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will 🧓 show on my friend's phone?
🧓 dates from Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🧓
To find 🧓 quickly, type older person into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type older person.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type older person in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type older person.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🧓 as one code point, U+1F9D3: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9D3 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧓 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧓 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9D3"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D3} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%93 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 93 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧓 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | older person |
| Português | idoso |
| Español | persona mayor |
| Italiano | persona anziana |
| Français | personne âgée |
| Deutsch | ältere Person |
| Türkçe | yaşlı yetişkin |
| Bahasa Indonesia | lanjut usia |
| Polski | starsza osoba |
| Русский | пожилой человек |
| 日本語 | お年寄り |
| 한국어 | 노인 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the older person emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧓 "older person" and links it with adult, elderly, grandparent, old. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people subgroup of people & body.
When was the older person emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
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.