People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧑Person Emoji
It mostly just means "person." People use it to represent themselves or anyone they're talking about in a text.
The 🧑 emoji represents a person, generally an adult.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D1
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :adult:
- Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧑 Person emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 1.
02 — Platforms
Person emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the person has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person 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
Person 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 :adult:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F9D1.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧑 Person emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Person emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person 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
Person emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What 🧑 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9D1, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🧑 vs 🧑🦱 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person
Code: U+1F9D1 · added 2017
Shortcode: :adult:
It mostly just means "person."
Unicode name: Person Curly Hair
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B1 · added 2019
Shortcode: :curly_haired_person:
Generally, the 🧑🦱 emoji just means a man with curly hair.
12 — History
Where the 🧑 Person emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the person to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9D1 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Person was approved as U+1F9D1 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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.
13 — FAQ