The astronaut: dark skin tone emoji brings big launch-day energy—perfect for hyping a new project, joking that your brain’s in orbit, or serving “I need space” with a wink. It’s also a proud nod to real-life trailblazers like Mae Jemison and Victor Glover, so people drop it to celebrate STEM wins and representation right alongside liftoff memes. In texts and tweets, it pairs with the rocket and sparkles for that “to the moon” vibe—sincere if you’re ambitious, ironic if you’re roasting crypto bros. Flirty or dramatic, it doubles as “you’re out of this world,” “BRB exploring the galaxy,” or “mentally checked out at 30,000 km/h.”
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a front-facing figure in a crisp white spacesuit with soft gray-blue panels, a chunky collar ring, and that shiny, round glass helmet dome. The face—in a rich dark skin tone—is clearly visible behind the visor with a calm, tiny smile and Apple’s smooth shading, giving it that clean, poster-worthy look. The suit’s details (piping, connectors, subtle panel lines) scream EVA chic without name-dropping any space agency, and the perspective is a tidy bust-up portrait that feels ready for zero‑G selfies. It’s instantly recognizable: white suit, bubble helmet, reflective highlights, serene expression.
Online, this emoji moonwalks between earnest and absurd: launching a startup? astronaut. Zoning out in a meeting? astronaut. Halloween costume flex? astronaut. People also use it for “space cadet” humor, awkward exits (“gonna spacewalk out of this convo”), and watch-party live posts during rocket launches. Add a star or crescent moon and you’ve basically got a whole mission patch in your caption.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2759 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🧑🏿🚀 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 4 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🧑🏿🚀 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🧑 🏿 ‍ 🚀 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🧑 🏿 ‍ 🚀 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f9d1, 1f3ff, 200d, 1f680 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9D1, U+1F3FF, U+200D, U+1F680 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129489, 127999, 8205, 128640 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x91, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x80 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 91, F0 9F 8F BF, E2 80 8D, F0 9F 9A 80 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 221, 360 237 217 277, 342 200 215, 360 237 232 200 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDD1, 0xD83C 0xDFFF, 0x200D, 0xD83D 0xDE80 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddd1, d83cdfff, 200d, d83dde80 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56785, 55356 57343, 8205, 55357 56960 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9D1 0x0001F3FF 0x0000200D 0x0001F680 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9D1, 01F3FF, 200D, 01F680 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129489, 127999, 8205, 128640 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9D1\U0001F3FF\u200D\U0001F680" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x91\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf\xe2\x80\x8d\xf0\x9f\x9a\x80" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDD1\uD83C\uDFFF\u200D\uD83D\uDE80" |
