Person: white hair

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Shortcode: :person_white_hair:
Unicode: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B3
HTML: 🧑‍🦳
CSS: \1F9D1\200D\1F9B3
JavaScript: "\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F9B3}"
URL: %F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%B3

What 🧑‍🦳 means

An adult with white hair and no gender shown. 🧑‍🦳 stands for gray hair and older age.

It marks a gray-haired person when gender does not matter, or jokes about going gray from stress. It fits posts about aging and grandparents.

Facts

Person: white hair 🧑‍🦳 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins 🧑 person and 🦳 white hair. 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 :person_white_hair:. People also look for it with words like “adult”, “person”, or “white hair”.

Made of

🧑+🦳=🧑‍🦳

Timeline

2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)

Design history

Google (Noto)

2020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

2020

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

people & body · Emoji 12.1