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👤Bust In Silhouette Emoji
The bust in silhouette emoji 👤 carries the codepoint U+1F464 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to People & Body → People Symbols.
What 👤 bust in silhouette means
Abstracted people rather than specific ones. 👤 and 👥 do interface work - the default avatar, a placeholder, an anonymous account. 🗣️ marks someone talking loudly or quoting a bad take. 🫂 people hugging landed in 2020 and became a common reply to bad news, and the gender-neutral family sequences added in 2023 sit here too.
Unicode tags this one bust, mysterious and shadow and files it under People & Body → People Symbols.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F464 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👤 | |
| HTML decimal | 👤 | |
| CSS | \1F464 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F464} | |
| Python | \U0001F464 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC64 | |
| Rust | \u{1f464} | |
| Swift | \u{1F464} | |
| PHP | \u{1F464} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%A4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 A4 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC64 | |
| Base64 | 8J+RpA== | |
| Decimal | 128100 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- bust
- mysterious
- shadow
- silhouette
How to type 👤
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “bust in silhouette”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bust”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f464and Enter. - HTML — paste
👤.
How 👤 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 👤Apple
- 👤Segoe
- 👤Noto
- 👤System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 👤 bust in silhouette emoji mean?+
👤 is the bust in silhouette emoji, tagged bust, mysterious and shadow. Abstracted people rather than specific ones. 👤 and 👥 do interface work - the default avatar, a placeholder, an anonymous account. 🗣️ marks someone talking loudly or quoting a bad take. 🫂 people hugging landed in 2020 and became a common reply to bad news, and the gender-neutral family sequences added in 2023 sit here too.
What is the Unicode code for 👤?+
bust in silhouette is U+1F464. In HTML that is 👤, in CSS \1F464, and in JavaScript \u{1F464}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👤 emoji added?+
bust in silhouette got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from People Symbols in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👤 bust in silhouette.