Technologist

What 🧑‍💻 means

A person at a 💻 laptop, standing for coders, developers, IT workers and anyone who works at a computer. It also means being online or working from home.

Developers use it for coding sessions, launches and late-night bug hunts. In chat it means “at my desk, working” or “let me look that up”. Jokes about hacking use it too, often with 🕶️.

Facts

Technologist 🧑‍💻 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 🧑 person and 💻 laptop. 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 :technologist:. People also look for it with words like “coder”, “computer”, “developer”, or “inventor”.

Made of

🧑+💻=🧑‍💻

Timeline

1. 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
2. 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)

Design history

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

people & body · Emoji 12.1