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🧓️ Older person emoji

🧓️

Emoji #255

HTML

🧓

Unicode

U+1F9D3

What is 🧓️ called?

🧓️ is called the Older person emoji.

Also known as an older adult, elder emoji, or senior person. “Elderly person” is understood, though many people prefer the neutral phrase “older person.”

What does 🧓️ mean?

🧓 is officially named older person. It represents an older adult without specifying gender and can mean an elder, senior, grandparent, ageing, experience, or later life.

Use it for older people, family generations, retirement, elder care, age inclusion, or respect. Avoid assuming that every older person is frail, retired, or a grandparent. Related choices include 👴 Old man and 👵 Old woman.

Other meanings

It can mean an older adult, elder, senior, ageing, experience, retirement, grandparent, later life, or an age-inclusive person.

Example Usage

Please offer the seat to an older person 🧓

The project pairs students with older mentors 🧓

More details

Officially named older person. Its code point is U+1F9D3. It was introduced in Emoji 5.0. It supports the standard five skin-tone modifiers.

Variants

🧓🏻

Light skin tone

🧓🏻

🧓🏼

Medium-light skin tone

🧓🏼

🧓🏽

Medium skin tone

🧓🏽

🧓🏾

Medium-dark skin tone

🧓🏾

🧓🏿

Dark skin tone

🧓🏿

Visual description

An older face has wrinkles and pale or grey hair, with neutral gender styling.

It is gender-neutral, unlike the old man and old woman emoji; white hair alone does not define age. Colours and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.

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