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🧓Older Person Emoji

Tagged adult, elderly and grandparent, 🧓 older person sits in Unicode's People group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 5.0 (2017) at U+1F9D3.

What 🧓 older person means

The base human figures, before any job, activity or gesture is attached. They mostly appear inside longer sequences, but on their own they cover life stages: baby, child, adult, older adult. Gender-neutral 🧒, 🧑 and 🧓 were added in 2017 alongside the existing man and woman forms rather than replacing them.

Unicode tags this one adult, elderly and grandparent and files it under People & Body → People.

Shortcodes

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

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F9D3`
HTML hex	`🧓`
HTML decimal	`🧓`
CSS	`\1F9D3`
JavaScript	`\u{1F9D3}`
Python	`\U0001F9D3`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDDD3`
Rust	`\u{1f9d3}`
Swift	`\u{1F9D3}`
PHP	`\u{1F9D3}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A7%93`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A7 93`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DDD3`
Base64	`8J+nkw==`
Decimal	`129491`
Introduced	Emoji 5.0 (2017)

Skin-tone variants

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

Keywords

adult
elderly
grandparent
old
person
wise

Appears in these collections

Person

How to type 🧓

Windows — press Win + . and search “older person”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “adult”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f9d3 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 🧓 older person emoji mean?+

🧓 is the older person emoji, tagged adult, elderly and grandparent. The base human figures, before any job, activity or gesture is attached. They mostly appear inside longer sequences, but on their own they cover life stages: baby, child, adult, older adult. Gender-neutral 🧒, 🧑 and 🧓 were added in 2017 alongside the existing man and woman forms rather than replacing them.

What is the Unicode code for 🧓?+

older person is U+1F9D3. In HTML that is 🧓, in CSS \1F9D3, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D3}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🧓 emoji added?+

older person got its emoji presentation in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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 5.0 (2017)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧓 older person.