People & Body · Emoji 12.1
🧑🦰Person Red Hair Emoji
Generally, 🧑🦰 simply means “a person with red hair.” People use it to point out someone’s hair color, often playfully.
The 🧑🦰 emoji represents a person with red hair.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B0
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :red_
haired_ person: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧑🦰 Person Red Hair emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Person Red Hair emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9D1 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your person red hair looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person Red Hair 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 Red Hair emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :red_haired_person:.
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 Red Hair emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9D1 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Person Red Hair emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Person Red Hair emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person red hair 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 person red hair and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🧑🦰 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the person red hair lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🧑🦰 vs 🧑 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Red Hair
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B0 · added 2019
Shortcode: :red_haired_person:
Generally, 🧑🦰 simply means “a person with red hair.”
Unicode name: Person
Code: U+1F9D1 · added 2017
Shortcode: :adult:
It mostly just means "person."
12 — History
Where the 🧑🦰 Person Red Hair emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.1, the person red hair has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B0 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 Red Hair was approved as U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B0 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.
13 — FAQ