People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧓Older Person Emoji
Generally, it just means “old person.” People use it to represent someone who is older.
The 🧓 emoji is an elderly person.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D3
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :older_
adult: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧓 Older Person emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
02 — Platforms
Older Person emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9D3 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your older person 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
Older 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
Older Person emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :older_adult:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the older person, code point U+1F9D3.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧓 Older Person emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9D3 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Older Person emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the older 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
Older Person emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around older 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — 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.
11 — Difference
🧓 vs 🧑🦲 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Older Person
Code: U+1F9D3 · added 2017
Shortcode: :older_adult:
Generally, it just means “old person.”
Unicode name: Person Bald
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B2 · added 2019
Shortcode: :bald_person:
🧑🦲 means a man with a beard and a distinguished, bald head.
12 — History
Where the 🧓 Older Person emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the older person to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9D3 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.
Older Person was approved as U+1F9D3 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