Bust in silhouette

The outline of a head and shoulders with no face. It means a person in general: a user, an account, a contact, or someone unnamed.

Apps and posts use it as a profile icon, a label for a name field, or a stand-in for “anonymous.” In chat it hints at a mystery person, like “guess who texted me 👤.”

For a group of people, 👥 shows two silhouettes.

Facts

Bust in silhouette 👤 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person symbol. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bust_in_silhouette:. People also look for it with words like “bust”, “mysterious”, “shadow”, or “silhouette”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Unicode 6.0