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🧑‍✈️Pilot Emoji

Q: What does the 🧑✈️ pilot emoji mean?

🧑✈️ is the pilot emoji, tagged plane. 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.

Q: What is the Unicode code for 🧑✈️?

pilot is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+2708 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🧑✈️, in CSS \1F9D1\200D\2708\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{2708}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

Tagged plane, 🧑‍✈️ pilot sits in Unicode's Roles & Careers group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 12.1 (2019) at U+1F9D1 U+200D U+2708 U+FE0F.

What 🧑‍✈️ pilot 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 plane 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+1F9D1person
·U+200DZero-width joiner
✈U+2708airplane
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F9D1 U+200D U+2708 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`🧑‍✈️`
HTML decimal	`🧑‍✈️`
CSS	`\1F9D1\200D\2708\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{2708}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0001F9D1\U0000200D\U00002708\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDDD1\u200D\u2708\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{1f9d1}\u{200d}\u{2708}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{2708}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{2708}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%E2%9C%88%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D E2 9C 88 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DDD1 200D 2708 FE0F`
Base64	`8J+nkeKAjeKciO+4jw==`
Decimal	`129489 8205 9992 65039`
Introduced	Emoji 12.1 (2019)

Skin-tone variants

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

Keywords

plane

Appears in these collections

Pilot

How to type 🧑‍✈️

Windows — press Win + . and search “pilot”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “plane”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f9d1 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 🧑‍✈️ pilot emoji mean?+

🧑‍✈️ is the pilot emoji, tagged plane. 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 🧑‍✈️?+

pilot is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+2708 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🧑‍✈️, in CSS \1F9D1\200D\2708\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{2708}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🧑‍✈️ emoji added?+

pilot 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.

Added in Emoji 12.1 (2019)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧑‍✈️ pilot.