= investigate
Meet the detective emoji — the internet’s trench-coated way of saying "I’m snooping respectfully." It’s perfect for moments when you’re piecing together clues from Instagram stories, side-eyeing a suspicious alibi, or announcing that you’ve located the receipts. People drop it when they’re in sleuth mode about celeb gossip, true-crime rabbit holes, or that one friend who "accidentally" soft-launched a situationship. It can be jokingly accusatory (sus energy), playfully flirty ("I see what you did there"), or pure meme: me after one Google search, certified investigator.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji is a front-facing bust in a brown fedora with a dark band and a tan trench coat, collar popped like classic film-noir. The face reads cool and subtle — slight smirk, eyes peeking under the brim — with smooth Apple gradients that give it shadowy, secret-agent vibes. It’s instantly recognizable as the fedora-and-trench combo, no magnifying glass needed. Users often stack it with the magnifying glass, footprints, or newspaper emojis for extra whodunit drama. Cultural shorthand: Sherlock meets spy thriller meets TikTok true-crime, used anytime you’re "on the case," from tracking down a meme source to investigating red flags.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1452 of 2393 |
| 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 | :spy: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Sleuth Or Spy Man Detective detective man detective |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Gesture Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 Code |
|---|---|
| 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) | 1f575 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F575 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128373 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0xB5 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 95 B5 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 225 265 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD75 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd75 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56693 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F575 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F575 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128373 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F575" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x95\xb5" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD75" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🕵️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🕵️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🕵 ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🕵 ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f575, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F575, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128373, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0xB5, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 95 B5, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 225 265, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD75, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd75, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56693, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F575 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F575, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128373, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F575\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x95\xb5\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD75\uFE0F" |
