= guest account
The bust in silhouette is the internet’s default “who’s this?” button—aka the universal profile icon. It signals a human presence without spilling any tea: no face, no features, just vibes. People drop it to talk about profiles, followers, headcounts, or when they’re rocking a mysterious no-pfp era. In chats, it can mean “me, myself, and I,” or a wink at lurking quietly in the comments.
On Apple/iOS, it looks like a smooth gray head-and-shoulders figure parked on a soft blue rounded square, very Contacts-app-core. No eyes, no smile—just a clean, featureless bust facing forward, the kind you’ve seen a thousand times on login screens and “View Profile” buttons. That unmistakable flat-gray-on-blue combo screams “generic avatar,” which is exactly why people use it for anonymity jokes, alt-account confessions, and “mystery follower spotted” moments.
Online, it shows up in meme talk like “who is this person?” or “ghost followers be like 👤.” It’s also handy for announcements: “one ticket left,” “solo queue,” or “new user onboarding.” Sarcastically, it can roast HR slides about “valuing our people” or poke fun at bland corporate branding. Flirty or dramatic? Pair it with a cryptic caption to soft-launch yourself without revealing anything at all.
The silhouette of a person from the nipple line (bust) up. An outline of a human's head and shoulders. A human shadow. Typically used as a user icon, or guest account, on a software program. Often used to say me, myself, or I.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 580 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :bust_in_silhouette: |
| Keywords | Silhouette, Person, User, Member, Account, Guest, Icon, Avatar, Profile, Me, Myself, I |
| Previous Names: | Bust In Silhouette |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Portrait and Role Symbols |
A generic profile icon.
| Unicode Category | Human/living Things |
| Unicode Subcategory | Portrait and Role Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | BUST IN SILHOUETTE = guest account |
| Symbol Information | U+1F464 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-19A |
| DoCoMo | #170 'Silhouette' 人影 U+E6B1 SJIS-F955 JIS-7E2C |
| KDDI | 〓 |
| Softbank | 〓 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👤 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👤 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👤 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👤 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f464 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F464 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128100 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA4 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 A4 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 244 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC64 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc64 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56420 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F464 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F464 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128100 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F464" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xa4" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC64" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | |
|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | ||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  | 󾆚 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  | 󾆚 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e6b1 | fe19a |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E6B1 | U+FE19A |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59057 | 1040794 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9A 0xB1 | 0xF3 0xBE 0x86 0x9A |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9A B1 | F3 BE 86 9A |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 232 261 | 363 276 206 232 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE6B1 | 0xDBB8 0xDD9A |
| UTF-16 Hex | e6b1 | dbb8dd9a |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59057 | 56248 56730 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E6B1 | 0x000FE19A |
| UTF-32 Hex | E6B1 | 0FE19A |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59057 | 1040794 |
| Python Src | u"\uE6B1" | u"\U000FE19A" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9a\xb1" | "\xf3\xbe\x86\x9a" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE6B1" | "\uDBB8\uDD9A" |
