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🕵️Detective Emoji
The detective emoji 🕵️ carries the codepoint U+1F575 U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 7.0 (2014). It belongs to People & Body → Roles & Careers.
What 🕵️ detective means
Jobs and identities, and the largest subgroup in People & Body. Almost all of them are ZWJ sequences: 👨🍳 is literally a man plus a zero-width joiner plus 🍳. The professions arrived in 2016 as man and woman pairs, with gender-neutral versions following in 2019. Used for introductions, career news and dressing-up jokes.
Unicode tags this one sleuth, spy and files it under People & Body → Roles & Careers.
Copy variants
detective carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🕵️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🕵U+1F575detective
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F575 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🕵️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🕵️ | |
| CSS | \1F575\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F575}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F575\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD75\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f575}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F575}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F575}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%95%B5%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 95 B5 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD75 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Vte+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128373 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🕵️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
- sleuth
- spy
Appears in these collections
How to type 🕵️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “detective”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “sleuth”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f575and 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 🕵️ detective emoji mean?+
🕵️ is the detective emoji, tagged sleuth, spy. Jobs and identities, and the largest subgroup in People & Body. Almost all of them are ZWJ sequences: 👨🍳 is literally a man plus a zero-width joiner plus 🍳. The professions arrived in 2016 as man and woman pairs, with gender-neutral versions following in 2019. Used for introductions, career news and dressing-up jokes.
What is the Unicode code for 🕵️?+
detective is U+1F575 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🕵️, in CSS \1F575\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F575}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🕵️ emoji added?+
detective got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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 Roles & Careers in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🕵️ detective.