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🕵️‍♂️Man Detective Emoji

Q: What does the 🕵️♂️ man detective emoji mean?

🕵️♂️ is the man detective emoji, tagged detective, man and sleuth. 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.

The man detective emoji 🕵️‍♂️ carries the codepoint U+1F575 U+FE0F U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Emoji 4.0 (2016). It belongs to People & Body → Roles & Careers.

What 🕵️‍♂️ man 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 detective, man and sleuth and files it under People & Body → Roles & Careers.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How 🕵️‍♂️ is built

This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.

🕵U+1F575detective
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
·U+200DZero-width joiner
♂U+2642male sign
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F575 U+FE0F U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`🕵️‍♂️`
HTML decimal	`🕵️‍♂️`
CSS	`\1F575\FE0F\200D\2642\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F575}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0001F575\U0000FE0F\U0000200D\U00002642\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDD75\uFE0F\u200D\u2642\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{1f575}\u{fe0f}\u{200d}\u{2642}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{1F575}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{1F575}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%95%B5%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 95 B5 EF B8 8F E2 80 8D E2 99 82 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DD75 FE0F 200D 2642 FE0F`
Base64	`8J+Vte+4j+KAjeKZgu+4jw==`
Decimal	`128373 65039 8205 9794 65039`
Introduced	Emoji 4.0 (2016)

Skin-tone variants

The 🕵️‍♂️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type 🕵️‍♂️

Windows — press Win + . and search “man detective”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “detective”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f575 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 🕵️‍♂️ man detective emoji mean?+

🕵️‍♂️ is the man detective emoji, tagged detective, man and sleuth. 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 🕵️‍♂️?+

man detective is U+1F575 U+FE0F U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🕵️‍♂️, in CSS \1F575\FE0F\200D\2642\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F575}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🕵️‍♂️ emoji added?+

man detective got its emoji presentation in Emoji 4.0 (2016). 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 4.0 (2016)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🕵️‍♂️ man detective.