Person with skullcap

A person in a gua pi mao, a traditional round Chinese skullcap with a knot on top. It stands for this cap and the older style of Chinese dress it belongs to.

It appears rarely, mostly in posts about Chinese history, period dramas, traditional clothing, or Lunar New Year.

It was one of the earliest people emoji, which explains why such a specific item is in the set. Using it as a stand-in for all Chinese or East Asian people reads as a stereotype.

Facts

Person with skullcap 👲 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. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :man_with_gua_pi_mao: or :person_with_skullcap:. People also look for it with words like “Chinese”, “cap”, “gua”, or “guapi”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)

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