What ๐งโ๐ซ means
A person teaching in front of a class. ๐งโ๐ซ represents teachers, professors, tutors and instructors.
It covers lessons, school news, tutoring and thanks to a favorite teacher. Friends also use it when someone starts explaining at length: "teacher mode ๐งโ๐ซ." Educators use it in bios and class announcements.
Facts
Teacher ๐งโ๐ซ 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 ๐ซ school. 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 :teacher:. People also look for it with words like โinstructorโ, โlecturerโ, or โprofessorโ.
Made of
๐ง+๐ซ=๐งโ๐ซ
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