Person: white hair emoji 🧑🦳
Emoji 12.1 (2019) · U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B3
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧑🦳 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🧑🦳 are adult, person, white hair. They show what people use it for.
Search for adult or person on your emoji keyboard and 🧑🦳 is among the results.
You will find 🧑🦳 among the people (28 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?
Emoji 12.1 brought 🧑🦳 in 2019. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.
What 🧑🦳 is made of
Technically 🧑🦳 is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🧑 person + 🦳. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🧑🦳
Search for person: white hair in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🧑🦳.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person: white hair.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type person: white hair in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person: white hair.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🧑🦳 is 3 code points (U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B3), 11 bytes in UTF-8 and 5 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+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B3 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧑‍🦳 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧑‍🦳 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9D1 \200D \1F9B3"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D1}\u200D\u{1F9B3} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%B3 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D F0 9F A6 B3 |
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 | person: white hair |
| Português | pessoa: cabelo branco |
| Español | persona adulta: pelo blanco |
| Italiano | persona: capelli bianchi |
| Français | adulte : cheveux blancs |
| Deutsch | Person: weißes Haar |
| Türkçe | yetişkin: beyaz saç |
| Bahasa Indonesia | dewasa: rambut putih |
| Polski | dorosły: białe włosy |
| Русский | взрослый: седые волосы |
| 日本語 | 大人: 白髪 |
| 한국어 | 사람: 백발 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the person: white hair emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧑🦳 "person: white hair" and links it with adult, person, white hair. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people subgroup of people & body.
When was the person: white hair emoji added?
In Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 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.