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🧑🦳Person: White Hair Emoji
Tagged adult, person and white hair, 🧑🦳 person: white hair sits in Unicode's People group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 12.1 (2019) at U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B3.
What 🧑🦳 person: white hair 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, person and white hair and files it under People & Body → People.
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+1F9D1person
- ·U+200DZero-width joiner
- 🦳U+1F9B3white hair
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B3 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧑‍🦳 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧑‍🦳 | |
| CSS | \1F9D1\200D\1F9B3 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F9B3} | |
| Python | \U0001F9D1\U0000200D\U0001F9B3 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDD1\u200D\uD83E\uDDB3 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9d1}\u{200d}\u{1f9b3} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F9B3} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F9B3} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%B3 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D F0 9F A6 B3 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDD1 200D D83E DDB3 | |
| Base64 | 8J+nkeKAjfCfprM= | |
| Decimal | 129489 8205 129459 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.1 (2019) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🧑🦳 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
- adult
- person
- white hair
Appears in these collections
How to type 🧑🦳
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “person: white hair”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “adult”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9d1and 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 🧑🦳 person: white hair emoji mean?+
🧑🦳 is the person: white hair emoji, tagged adult, person and white hair. 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 🧑🦳?+
person: white hair is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B3. In HTML that is 🧑‍🦳, in CSS \1F9D1\200D\1F9B3, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F9B3}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧑🦳 emoji added?+
person: white hair got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.1 (2019). 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 People in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 12.1 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧑🦳 person: white hair.