The person emoji is the default human of the emoji universe: no job title, no costume, just vibes. It’s the gender-neutral stand‑in for “someone,” perfect for when you mean a human but don’t want to specify man or woman. On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing bust with a calm, neutral expression, short hair, and a simple solid-colored top (often in a cool blue/teal range), shown in the classic yellow default skin with optional tone modifiers. The look is clean, friendly, and unmistakably “profile picture energy.”
Online, people drop it in to call out “this person” in screenshots, to narrate a mystery human (“a person just cut me in line”), or to keep things inclusive in group chats and work docs. It’s also meme fuel for lines like “me, a person” or “a person has entered the chat,” and it works as an intentionally bland avatar when you’re going low-key or lurking. In UX/design talk it moonlights as the generic user icon, and in texting it can be sarcastic shorthand for “some rando” or a tactful way to avoid misgendering. Think of it as the base character in the emoji RPG—the neutral default that keeps the story moving without extra drama.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 997 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture | ![]() |
| Google Android Picture | ![]() |
| 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 | |
| Previous Names: | Adult |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - 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) | 1f9d1 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9D1 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129489 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x91 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 91 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 221 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDD1 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddd1 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56785 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9D1 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9D1 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129489 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9D1" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x91" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDD1" |