What ๐งโโ๏ธ means
A person in a pilot's cap and uniform, standing for pilots, flying and air travel.
Travelers use it for trips, layovers and airport posts, often with โ๏ธ or ๐ซ. Pilots and student pilots use it about their own flying. It also plays โthis is your captain speakingโ in a joke announcement before a road trip or a big plan.
Facts
Pilot 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 airplane. 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 :pilot:. People also look for it with words like โplaneโ.
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
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