The man detective: medium-dark skin tone emoji is your go-to signal for “I’m on the case.” People drop it when they’re doing internet sleuthing, decoding vague posts, or performing Olympic-level profile checking—aka FBI Twitter energy. It’s perfect for calling something sus, demanding receipts, or announcing a full-blown deep dive into the group chat’s latest mystery. Used ironically, it can mean “I’m being nosey but with vibes,” or playfully, “I noticed… everything.”
On Apple/iOS, he’s a medium-dark–skinned private eye in a tan trench coat and dark fedora, flashing a knowing half-smirk while holding a magnifying glass up to one eye (that signature blue-tinted lens is instantly recognizable). The bust-up view and three-quarter angle make him look mid-stakeout, like he just spotted a clue under fluorescent café lights. Culturally he nods to Sherlock Holmes, film-noir gumshoes, and the true-crime podcast era—equal parts dramatic and meme-worthy. Use it flirtatiously to say you’re “inspecting” someone’s profile, or comedically when you uncover who left dishes in the sink. Whenever drama is brewing or tea is steeping, this emoji says: I’ve got questions—and I brought the magnifying glass.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3295 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 11 - 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) | 1f575, 1f3fe, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F575, U+1F3FE, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128373, 127998, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0xB5, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 95 B5, F0 9F 8F BE, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 225 265, 360 237 217 276, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD75, 0xD83C 0xDFFE, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd75, d83cdffe, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56693, 55356 57342, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F575 0x0001F3FE 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F575, 01F3FE, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128373, 127998, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F575\U0001F3FE\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x95\xb5\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD75\uD83C\uDFFE\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
