🕵️ Detective emoji

The 🕵️ detective emoji represents a person investigating clues, mysteries, or suspicious activity. Use it for detectives, private investigators, crime stories, mysteries, research, and looking into something carefully.

It is the gender-neutral detective emoji and pairs with 🕵️‍♂️ Man detective, 🕵️‍♀️ Woman detective, 🔎 Magnifying glass tilted right, and 🧩 Puzzle piece.

Could also be called detective, investigator, private eye, sleuth or spy emoji.

Other meanings

Can mean snooping, investigating, fact-checking, searching for evidence, solving a mystery, or trying to figure out hidden details.

Example Usage

I am investigating this typo 🕵️ The detective found a new clue 🕵️🔎 Something feels suspicious 🕵️

Variants

Related emoji

Emergency services emojis

• 🧑‍🚒 Firefighter
• 👨‍🚒 Man firefighter
• 👩‍🚒 Woman firefighter
• 👮️ Police officer

Professions emojis

• 🧑‍⚕️ Health worker
• 👨‍⚕️ Man health worker
• 👩‍⚕️ Woman health worker
• 🧑‍🎓 Student

Visual description

On iOS, 🕵️ shows a person in a dark fedora and coat, holding a magnifying glass near their face.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.