🧑‍🏫 Teacher emoji

The teacher emoji means an educator, instructor, tutor, professor, or person leading a lesson. Use it for school, classrooms, training, workshops, teaching jobs, and helpful explanations.

It is the gender-neutral teacher emoji. For gendered versions, compare 👨‍🏫 Man teacher and 👩‍🏫 Woman teacher, or use 🧑‍🎓 Student when the focus is the learner.

Could also be called teacher, educator, instructor, tutor or professor emoji.

Other meanings

Can also mean mentoring, coaching, explaining, classroom leadership, lesson planning, or professional training.

Example Usage

Best teacher ever 🧑‍🏫 Training starts at nine 🧑‍🏫 Explaining this one more time 🧑‍🏫

Related emoji

Professions emojis

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

Visual description

On iOS, this shows a person in front of a green board. At small sizes, the board behind the head is the easiest detail to notice.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.