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👮Police Officer Emoji
Tagged apprehend, arrest and citation, 👮 police officer sits in Unicode's Roles & Careers group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F46E.
What 👮 police officer 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 apprehend, arrest and citation and files it under People & Body → Roles & Careers.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F46E | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👮 | |
| HTML decimal | 👮 | |
| CSS | \1F46E | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F46E} | |
| Python | \U0001F46E | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC6E | |
| Rust | \u{1f46e} | |
| Swift | \u{1F46E} | |
| PHP | \u{1F46E} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%AE | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 AE | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC6E | |
| Base64 | 8J+Rrg== | |
| Decimal | 128110 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
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 “police officer”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “apprehend”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f46eand 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 👮 police officer emoji mean?+
👮 is the police officer emoji, tagged apprehend, arrest and citation. 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 👮?+
police officer is U+1F46E. In HTML that is 👮, in CSS \1F46E, and in JavaScript \u{1F46E}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👮 emoji added?+
police officer got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Roles & Careers in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👮 police officer.