People & Body · Emoji 0.7
🕵️Detective Emoji
Generally, the 🕵️ emoji means someone is investigating or trying to solve a mystery. It’s often used to show you're on the case or trying to uncover the truth.
The 🕵️ emoji represents a detective or investigator.
- Unicode
- U+1F575 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :sleuth_
or_ spy: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🕵️ Detective emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
02 — Platforms
Detective emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F575. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Detective emoji skin tones
🕵️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Detective emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :sleuth_or_spy:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F575.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🕵️ Detective emoji
No picker to hand? The detective can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Detective emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the detective as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Detective emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around detective for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🕵️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the detective and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🕵️ means in other countries
Recognized globally through Sherlock Holmes pop culture, so the investigator reading holds steady everywhere.
Professional investigator, private eye, or a formal detective role at work
“Let me investigate” before fact-checking a claim or snooping a little bit
Tags someone who’s being unusually observant, nosy, or suspicious of others
Before you send it: Use it freely for “looking into something” moments; there’s no real regional gap to manage.
10 — Apps
What 🕵️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — Difference
🕵️ vs 🕵️♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Detective
Code: U+1F575 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :sleuth_or_spy:
Generally, the 🕵️ emoji means someone is investigating or trying to solve a mystery.
Unicode name: Woman Detective
Code: U+1F575 U+FE0F U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :female-detective:
Generally, the 🕵️♀️ emoji means someone is investigating something or pretending to be a detective.
13 — History
Where the 🕵️ Detective emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the detective to 2014.
Detective was approved as U+1F575 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🕵️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ