All aboard the vibes: the pilot: medium-dark skin tone emoji brings big cockpit energy and that preflight calm. On Apple devices it shows a front-facing, gender-neutral pilot with medium-dark skin, a navy jacket and cap, gold wing insignia on the hat, neat white shirt, black tie, and those telltale epaulettes—basically “Maverick meets HR-approved.” The expression is composed and capable, like someone who can parallel park a 737. Visually, the blue tones and gold trim make it instantly readable as airline crew even at small sizes.
People drop it to flex a trip, signal an airport pickup, or announce a life update that’s “cleared for takeoff.” It doubles as sass—“I’m the captain now”—when taking charge of group plans or the aux cord. Flirty use? “Looking for a co‑pilot” with this emoji practically comes with complimentary pretzels. It pops up in meme speak for turbulence at work, upgrades IRL, and Top Gun quotes nobody asked for. You’ll also see it punning on “pilot episode” when testing a new idea, or ironically when someone’s being an armchair aviator in the comments. Pair with ✈️, 🧳, 🌍, or 🛫 to sell the jetsetter fantasy, or with ⚠️ and the “seatbelt sign is on” to dramatize incoming chaos.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2763 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🧑🏾✈️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 5 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🧑🏾✈️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🧑 🏾 ‍ ✈ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🧑 🏾 ‍ ✈ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f9d1, 1f3fe, 200d, 2708, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9D1, U+1F3FE, U+200D, U+2708, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129489, 127998, 8205, 9992, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x91, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x9C 0x88, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 91, F0 9F 8F BE, E2 80 8D, E2 9C 88, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 221, 360 237 217 276, 342 200 215, 342 234 210, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDD1, 0xD83C 0xDFFE, 0x200D, 0x2708, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddd1, d83cdffe, 200d, 2708, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56785, 55356 57342, 8205, 9992, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9D1 0x0001F3FE 0x0000200D 0x00002708 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9D1, 01F3FE, 200D, 2708, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129489, 127998, 8205, 9992, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9D1\U0001F3FE\u200D\u2708\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x91\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x9c\x88\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDD1\uD83C\uDFFE\u200D\u2708\uFE0F" |
