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🫆Fingerprint Emoji

Unicode added 🫆 fingerprint in Emoji 16.0 (2024), filed under People & Body → People Symbols. Its codepoint is U+1FAC6, and it is tagged clue, crime and detective.

What 🫆 fingerprint 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 clue, crime and detective 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+1FAC6`
HTML hex	`🫆`
HTML decimal	`🫆`
CSS	`\1FAC6`
JavaScript	`\u{1FAC6}`
Python	`\U0001FAC6`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDEC6`
Rust	`\u{1fac6}`
Swift	`\u{1FAC6}`
PHP	`\u{1FAC6}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%AB%86`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F AB 86`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DEC6`
Base64	`8J+rhg==`
Decimal	`129734`
Introduced	Emoji 16.0 (2024)

Keywords

clue
crime
detective
forensics
identity
mystery
print
safety
trace

Appears in these collections

How to type 🫆

Windows — press Win + . and search “fingerprint”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “clue”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1fac6 and 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 🫆 fingerprint emoji mean?+

🫆 is the fingerprint emoji, tagged clue, crime and detective. 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 🫆?+

fingerprint is U+1FAC6. In HTML that is 🫆, in CSS \1FAC6, and in JavaScript \u{1FAC6}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🫆 emoji added?+

fingerprint got its emoji presentation in Emoji 16.0 (2024). 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.

Added in Emoji 16.0 (2024)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🫆 fingerprint.