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🏻Light Skin Tone Emoji
🏻 is the light skin tone emoji, U+1F3FB, one of 5 in the Skin Tones set. It arrived with Emoji 1.0 (2015) and is commonly used for 1–2, light and skin.
What 🏻 light skin tone means
Not emoji in their own right but modifiers: five characters that follow a person or body part and change its color. They were added in 2015 and are based on the Fitzpatrick dermatology scale, with its two lightest types merged into one. Alone they render as a plain color swatch, which is why they sometimes appear as stray blocks.
Unicode tags this one 1–2, light and skin and files it under Components → Skin Tones.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3FB | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏻 | |
| HTML decimal | 🏻 | |
| CSS | \1F3FB | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3FB} | |
| Python | \U0001F3FB | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFFB | |
| Rust | \u{1f3fb} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3FB} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3FB} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%BB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F BB | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFFB | |
| Base64 | 8J+Puw== | |
| Decimal | 127995 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
- 1–2
- light
- skin
- tone
- type
How to type 🏻
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “light skin tone”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “1–2”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3fband 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 🏻 light skin tone emoji mean?+
🏻 is the light skin tone emoji, tagged 1–2, light and skin. Not emoji in their own right but modifiers: five characters that follow a person or body part and change its color. They were added in 2015 and are based on the Fitzpatrick dermatology scale, with its two lightest types merged into one. Alone they render as a plain color swatch, which is why they sometimes appear as stray blocks.
What is the Unicode code for 🏻?+
light skin tone is U+1F3FB. In HTML that is 🏻, in CSS \1F3FB, and in JavaScript \u{1F3FB}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏻 emoji added?+
light skin tone got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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 Skin Tones in Components.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏻 light skin tone.