What ๐งโโ๏ธ means
A person in robes with the โ๏ธ scales of justice, standing for a judge, a court, or the law. In casual chat it often means judging someone, in a playful way.
Legal news, jury duty and law school posts use it straight. Among friends it delivers a mock verdict: โthe court finds you guilty of eating my fries ๐งโโ๏ธโ. It also softens a confession, as in โno judgment, butโฆโ.
Facts
Judge ๐งโโ๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person and โ๏ธ balance scale. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :judge:. People also look for it with words like โjusticeโ, โlawโ, or โscalesโ.
Made of
๐ง+โ๏ธ=๐งโโ๏ธ
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2020
2025
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.1