Person emoji 🧑
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F9D1
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧑 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Person 🧑 is tagged with these keywords: adult.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing adult or person in the emoji search brings up 🧑.
Person 🧑 is one of 28 emoji in the people subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 👱 👨 🧔 🧔♂️.
🧑 comes in 5 skin tones, from 🧑🏻 to 🧑🏿, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will 🧑 show on my friend's phone?
🧑 was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🧑
Any emoji picker finds 🧑 when you search for person.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type person in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person.
Codes for developers
Person 🧑 is a single code point, U+1F9D1. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9D1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧑 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧑 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9D1"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D1} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%91 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 91 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧑 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
More emoji like this
All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the person emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧑 "person" and links it with adult. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people subgroup of people & body.
When was the 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.