The man detective: medium skin tone emoji is your go-to for channeling Sherlock energy, exposing plot twists, and side-eyeing suspicious alibis in the group chat. It’s used when you’re “doing research” (aka light social media sleuthing), when a friend’s story has more holes than Swiss cheese, or when you’re dramatically searching for who finished the last slice of pizza. Online, it carries big “I have the receipts” vibes—perfect for gossip breakdowns, true-crime chatter, and playful calling-out of sus behavior. It also doubles as a flirty wink-without-winking: I noticed you, and I’m not mad about it.
On Apple devices, the man detective rocks a tan trench coat and brown fedora, peering through a silver-rimmed magnifying glass that enlarges one eye—instant cinematic noir. The medium skin tone shows on the face and the hand holding the glass, with clean shading and a slightly turned, serious expression that says “Just the facts.” The palette leans beige, brown, and cool gray, giving you classic gumshoe mood with modern emoji polish. Culturally, this taps into Sherlock Holmes, film-noir private eyes, and internet “FBI” fans who can find your 2009 tweets before you can say plot twist. Use it sincerely when you’re investigating, sarcastically when you already know the answer, or dramatically when you’re about to reveal the tea—case closed.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3300 of 2393 |
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| 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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| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - Current |
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| 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) | 1f575, 1f3fd, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F575, U+1F3FD, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128373, 127997, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0xB5, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 95 B5, F0 9F 8F BD, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 225 265, 360 237 217 275, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD75, 0xD83C 0xDFFD, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd75, d83cdffd, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56693, 55356 57341, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F575 0x0001F3FD 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F575, 01F3FD, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128373, 127997, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F575\U0001F3FD\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x95\xb5\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD75\uD83C\uDFFD\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
