A person in a turban, a head wrap worn for faith, culture or daily life in many parts of the world. Sikhs wear one as an article of faith, and turbans are also traditional in parts of South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
People who wear a turban use it to represent themselves, their family or their community, for example in Vaisakhi greetings. It also appears in posts about turban-tying and cultural dress.
Using it as a costume or a stereotype reads as offensive.
Facts
Person wearing turban ๐ณ 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 6.0 (2010). 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 :person_with_turban: or :person_wearing_turban:. People also look for it with words like โpersonโ, โturbanโ, or โwearingโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
- 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐ณโโ๏ธ๐ณโโ๏ธ
Design history
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Unicode 6.0