Detective
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- Shortcode
:detective:- Unicode
U+1F575- HTML
🕵- CSS
\1F575- JavaScript
"\u{1F575}"- URL
%F0%9F%95%B5%EF%B8%8F
What ๐ต๏ธ means
A figure in a hat and trench coat, standing for detectives, spies and private investigators. In chat it mostly means snooping or investigating something.
People send it after they dig through someone's old posts, crack a small mystery, or guess who sent an anonymous message: โI did some research ๐ต๏ธโ. True-crime fans use it with ๐. It can also mean going incognito.
Facts
Detective ๐ต๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :detective:. People also look for it with words like โsleuthโ or โspyโ.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
- 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 2.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2019
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.