People & Body · Emoji 12.1
🧑🎤Singer Emoji
Generally, it means someone is talking about a singer or someone who performs music. It’s a simple way to represent a musical artist.
The 🧑🎤 emoji represents a person dressed as a singer – usually a female performer.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F3A4
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :singer:
- Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧑🎤 Singer emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
02 — Platforms
Singer emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the singer as 5 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Singer 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
Singer 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 :singer:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the singer, code point U+1F9D1.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧑🎤 Singer emoji
No picker to hand? The singer can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Singer emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the singer as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Singer emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around singer 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 singer and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🧑🎤 means in other countries
Same performer-and-praise duality as the gendered versions, read consistently across casual chat.
Musician or performing artist as a stated profession or activity
General “you crushed it” praise, whether music-related or not at all
Tags posts about concerts, releases, or upcoming music from an artist
Before you send it: Works equally well as literal music content or a quick compliment on someone’s performance.
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: Singer
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F3A4 · added 2019
Shortcode: :singer:
Generally, it means someone is talking about a singer or someone who performs music.
Unicode name: Woman Singer
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F3A4 · added 2016
Shortcode: :female-singer:
Generally, it just means a woman who sings or performs music.
13 — History
Where the 🧑🎤 Singer emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F3A4 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.
Singer was approved as U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F3A4 and shipped in Emoji 12.1 (2019). 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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ